Another Build Thread - My '32

[J. Robinson]

Well, it's been a while. Life gets in the way. I actually did some fabrication, but then there was Christmas and all those obligations, a couple of Electrathon races, and there is always some "honey-dos" that pop up. So.., what fabrication did I do?

I sidestepped the hood and grille shell modifications for now so I could do the wiring. First, I needed a place to mount the fuse block. I considered putting it behind the passenger seat, but I have power seats. If I blew a fuse in the seat circuit, how would I get to it if the seat wouldn't move? The passenger side under the dash is crowded with the A/C hoses and hardware that needs to be accessible, so it turns out that the fuse block needs to go in the common driver's side cowl area. With the location decided I needed a mount for it. I started with a piece of scrap cardboard and, through cut and try method, I made a pattern for a mount that fits between the square steel tubes in the cowl. I transferred the pattern to some 16-gauge aluminum, cut it out, bent the flanges on my benchtop brake, and put thread inserts where the fuse block bolt holes go.

Finally, I drilled and secured the mount in place with big-head 3/16, steel shank pop rivets. Now the real fun begins - wiring.