Anyone ever seen a firewall bend where clutch cable goes thru

[1993SSP]

Anyone ever seen this happen before?? I have a car that I bought, definitely a fixer upper, replaced the clutch cable and there was a big piece of steel that a previous owner had made that came out with the cable, I looked closer and it was to fix where the firewall had gave in and bent. How the hell did such happen???

 

[Cobra912]

nope, post a pic

 

[HISSIN50]

They sometimes flex or tear, so reinforcement is fabricated. It's not common, but also not unheard of.

 

[89stang1]

man and i thought i had some heavy clutch cables.........maybe previous owner butchered the firewall bad enough on a firewall adj install that he had to install some new steel

 

[tannerc91gt]

or its possible he used a big stupid hammer or pry bar on it for some reason. Without a picture, we're all just guessing but ive seen some really stupid people do some really stupid things to cars plenty of times.