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#1
08-10-2017, 08:12 PM
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Do you see a problem here?
In the context of putting your car on a rotisserie, might this be a problem?
(my gut says yes.) This picture was taken when the car was kinda twisting; The rear was on the ground; The front was in the process of being bolted to the rotisserie; I had a jack under the passenger side, lifting it, to get the arm in place; I had just tightened the bolt. After releasing the jack, the front leveled outand the cage went back to it's natural position. I have owned this car since July 1995, and until this happened, I had no reason to question if the cage(s) were sufficiently welded to the firewall.
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1970 Formula 400 Carousel Red paint on Black standard interior A no-engine, no-transmission, no-wheel option car. Quite likely one of few '70 Muncie three speed Formula 400's left. 1991 Grand Am: 14.4 @ 93.7mph (DA corrected) (retired DD, stock appearing) 2009 Cobalt SS: 13.9 @ 103mph (current DD; makes something north of 300hp & 350ft/lbs) |
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#2
08-11-2017, 10:11 PM
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seriously?
no one is willing to venture an opinion? this can't be the way they are supposed to be - is it?
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1970 Formula 400 Carousel Red paint on Black standard interior A no-engine, no-transmission, no-wheel option car. Quite likely one of few '70 Muncie three speed Formula 400's left. 1991 Grand Am: 14.4 @ 93.7mph (DA corrected) (retired DD, stock appearing) 2009 Cobalt SS: 13.9 @ 103mph (current DD; makes something north of 300hp & 350ft/lbs) |
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#3
08-11-2017, 11:09 PM
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No, it shouldn't be like that. It should have been spot welded all along that upper edge.
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#4
08-12-2017, 04:19 AM
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That is a "Torque Box" It was originally welded by a Robot at Fisher body. It could have easily shot some blank welds and been missed after the body was dunked. Was firewall ever worked on?
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#5
08-12-2017, 11:11 AM
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It's not supposed to be like that. I'd stitch weld it back to the firewall.
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#6
08-12-2017, 11:47 AM
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Push it back, weld it and my advice is stop showing everybody the things that are wrong with your car and deminishing its value
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#7
08-12-2017, 07:55 PM
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when i lowered the jack it went back to normal;
in the twenty-two years I've owned this car, this has never been noticed. it's now on the rotisserie, not yet leveled out ect, but it now looks like it always had. No, as far as I know it has never had any sort of firewall work - I did though spray the firewall black probably around twenty years ago.
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1970 Formula 400 Carousel Red paint on Black standard interior A no-engine, no-transmission, no-wheel option car. Quite likely one of few '70 Muncie three speed Formula 400's left. 1991 Grand Am: 14.4 @ 93.7mph (DA corrected) (retired DD, stock appearing) 2009 Cobalt SS: 13.9 @ 103mph (current DD; makes something north of 300hp & 350ft/lbs) |
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#8
09-11-2017, 02:20 AM
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I did see one very similar to that. On a 1981 convertible.
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