6 Cyl engine cover

[Banksx2]

I'd like to play around with my mountanous V8 cover to give the driver somewhere to put the left foot. To keep the Beddie feel I want to incorporate the curves of the original 6 cylinder cover but I don't have one as we bought the van as an 8.

Anyone in Perth or surrounds have an unwanted original cover they would like to sell??

Cheers,

Garry

[Jeff]

Another option is to move the engine a couple of inches to the left.

[Banksx2]

Move engine = effort big.

Modify engine cover = effort small.

I'd like to leave the working things where they are and play with the aesthetics to give my foot some room...

[ben]

just put your foot on the windscreen. much less work.

[obsession]

yes iv got a spare one mate are you thinking of just sectioning the cover up the center and widening it to suit you needs?

[Banksx2]

Sort of. I want to refashion the removable section of an existing fibreglass V8 cover using the same shape as the original Beddie cover to give that Oh-so-convenient footrest that most of the 8's seem to lack.

We're fibreglass virgins but Shelley is hot to give it a go so I just want to cheat and bastardise an original cover (cut, shut and bog) to make the mould. Shelley's talking chook wire and paper mache and it's starting to make sense so I'd better get hold of an original cover before she hits Bunnings!

By the way - I think Ben posted a youtube link a while back that showed basic 'glassing techniques but I can't find the topic. Pretty please post it again mate?

Cheers,

Garry

[Banksx2]

just put your foot on the windscreen. much less work.

Thanks for the tip Ben but after a Nullabor crossing wouldn' I wind up with a left leg spaghetti hamstring and sunburnt toes? 

[ben]

i have an engine cover here that would be exactly what your after.. its steel thou. ill pm you.