Another Bulkhead box question...
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I'm soon gonna be installing a turbo box and a weber box to my clubby estate.

Most people seem to have uses a plasma cutter to cut the section of the bulkhead out, unfortunaly i dont have access to one. So what the beast was to go about the cutting?

I have a small angle grider and will hapilly purchase other tools if required (not a plasma cutter before yu say, hehe).

Basicly "How did you do yours?"

Anton

Shouldn't that read most peeps DON'T use a plasma cutter?

I did mine with an angle-grinder.

dont they? ahh cool i'll use a grinder then....

might invest in a 3" air cut off tool too, "honestly luv I NEED one"

oooh anothe quick question, what have you done about the heater hangers?

I did mine with a reciprocating saw, similar to a jigsaw. Gives quite a clean cut and is easier to be accurate with it than an angle grinder. Although I am sure with care a grinder would do the job just fine.
The heater hangers go when you cut the bulkhead, you'll have to fabricate something to weld on for the heater to mount to.

I used an angle grinder, as long as your careful should be ok, as for the heater i ditched it, it weighs to much!

Heater???? Never put it back on.

i guess i'm the only posh git who used a plasma cutter then? glad i took my interior out though, almost lost half me wiring loom to it at one point

i reckon we'll be fine doing it with an angle grinder and a few thin cutting discs dude. other than that we could always pick up one of those reciprocating air saws from the wholesalers

I actually used an electric recip saw, hired for the day from a tool hire place, may be worth considering.

Chisel and hammer ?????

i used an angle grinder as well.

you could try an oxy/act torch. this is much quicker but has some minor draw backs.lol

as for heater, you could fit a van or early heater as these mount to the dash rail and not the bulkhead(i have one in mine). the only problem is if you think a late mini heater is crap, you should try these!!

cool thanks guys... i'll go with the grinder and some new air tools then

i found loads of pics of turbo boxs on the web... any got any of a weber box?

i paid someone to do my bulkhead box, and as for the heater i think i used one bracket, some long screws and some good old zip ties lol

sorry, for the weber box try jimsters site its pretty cosmic

hehe... jimsters looks great but i've not got the expertise to do that, plus ive allready bough the box from avonbar