What a day. 7pm just seems to come waay too soon. It always feels like I should have gotten more done even though I worked on it pretty much all day.
This morning started off with me hacking into the passenger side tub mount, to see what I could do to make it work. There’s several issues going on, and there’s this balance to make it all work the way I want it to work. In the end what I want is the mount bolt hole to be centered through the mount (not offset to the rear like the factory). The BobM mount is a simplified version of the factory mount, with a continuous 3” width and a continuous slope from outside inwards. The floorpan doesn’t sit flat, but slopes upwards towards the hump opening. The angle line in the pan that transitions the flat portion of floorboard to the angle that leads to the firewall, also runs at a couple degrees of incline from the kick panel (lower A-Pillar) to the tranny opening. Nothing straight, nothing simple, everything oddball. Throw in custom replacement sheetmetal (that attempts to simplify the factory hodgepodge), previous repair work, and sky-high ideals - there’s gonna be some work to do.
So, first I hacked the downturn that attaches to the inside rocker sheetmetal (that I don’t have)
Then hacked off about 3” of the end
The difference between the shortened version and the original size.
Cut off the front facing transition and welded scraps on to get the proper angles.
Made a cut along the rear face to allow the seat to contact the floorboard and welded gap. About 1/4”.
. Hope you didn't cut too deep, those are Sore with the grinder.
