Here’s the stock firewall. We’re running a Hilborn Injected Nailhead with a Joe Hunt Magneto which will need a little clearance.  We’re going to leave the X’s, just shortened up a bit.

At this point we’ve cut out the section that needs to be relieved and shortened up the X’s, now just need to make a nice curved piece in it’s place. The object is to keep it looking as original as possible .
 
Here’s what we came up with. Hopefully it looks like it could have came from the factory this way.
The top area is curved also.  Little more work, but looks a lot better
. Now we have a little extra room.
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