I'm making good progress and hope to start the car for the first time this next weekend. But the car has been fighting me the whole way since we dropped in the engine.
- Finished plumbing the fuel regulator and lines
- Completed the accelerator linkage
- Finished the remote
oil adapter. The filter was interfering with the front crossmember, so I had to have 1/4" milled off the adapter bracket.
- Cut the tunnel and installed the trim ring and boot for the shifter
- Mounted the fire extinguisher on the bulkhead
- Had the trans out 3x because the clutch wouldn't disengage. I'm pretty sure now the problem was interference between the clutch splines and the throw out bearing retainer (thanks to Brent and the folks here) so I removed the bearing retainer and am having it cut down 5/16"
- Repainted and installed the expansion tank. It was interfering with the distributor so I had to have a 1/2" aluminum spacer made to fix that problem
- Installed the headers and sidepipes. One side went on easy, the other was a b*tch and I dented/dinged a collector tube on a sidepipe. Bummer, and the only real damage so far. I will just live with it for now.
- Installed a braided stainless hose for the
oil pressure circuit, and installed the other senders
Hard to see it with this angle, but the bearing retainer is too long.
