Since I had some scraps of aluminum, I decided to address a problem
I had with my radio's speaker. I bought a 5X7 inch speaker to replace the
original speaker that was well rotted out. It doesn't quite fit in the
original hole, so I decided to make a plate to secure the new speaker.
It was good practice for my tin cutting skills on this piece of aluminum.
I still need lots of practice to make clean cuts, but I can at least fix
my sloppy cuts with a file.
I'll have to look at my original panel to check how the speaker fit.
I think I remember seeing a speaker grille, and in that case I can keep
it the way you see here. If I decide to go with a flat leather covered
panel with pereforations in the leather, I'll need to remount the speaker
under this panel. We'll see.
I installed the the fresh air ducts in the dash today. It's a project
that has been pushed out of the way when I got started on the exhaust shields.
This hose takes a very odd route through the glove box to get to the center
vent. I could never understand why Ferrari left the top of the glove box
open like this.
The passenger side vent runs through the fire wall down by the foot
well, and rises up to the vent in the dash. This area will be finished
with carpeting, and leather trim.
Now that the vent hoses are in, I could finally attach the dashboard
to the car. The windshield is out of the car so fitting the screws and
defroster duct trim piece was much easier.
Now that I was done inside the car, I moved into the engine compartment
to finish the rest of the job. You can see how I routed the fresh air vents
by the windshield wiper motor. I had to partially disconnect the motor
to push these hoses through. Now that everything is reconnected, I can
move onto the next project in this area, the battery tray! Stay tuned to
how I fabricate a new one from scratch!
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