Smoothed firewall questions

Im just about to put a small block 350 in my dawg and figured im going to takle the firewall, was hoping someone had some pics of where to cut or what not to cut to make this as easy as possible. Im keeping the wiper motor and booster thats about it.

Try to get a hold of v8mazda4ever and dragginmazda86

They have both done swaps similar to this...

v8mazda4ever has the swap and has done this swap many of times.

My firewall is kinda shaved,I only kept the booster and wiper motor. I but my wiper motor "behind" the firewall to shave that area, you'll see in the pics. It's not nessasary to go as far back into the firewall as I did, the reason I did it was I didn't want to modify the outside of the hood for the engine and I'm keeping my stock hood latch, I didn't want hood pins. So with the engine that far back it helped alot with room for radiator and electric fans, I'm running a short water pump and accesories. The engine in the pics is a mock up with long water pump. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

You can kinda see the wiper motor behind the firewall.


I still have to finish the area behind the dizzy.


In progrees.

Before seam sealer and dynamat.