[Aussie Mike]

Hi Plums, I'll see you this week some time.

Beejay,

It's a bit of an optical illusion with the camera angle but there's quite a bit of room between the clutch pedal and the coils. Enough for me with my blundstone boots on anyway. Don't know yet if I'll put a cover over the coils.

The red wire is the main battery cable to the starter motor. I haven't put a lug on the end of it yet so it's still hanging there. A friend has got a nice hydraulic crimping tool that I'll borrow over the next week or so. It does a really nice job.

The heater outlets aren't hooked up to anything yet. I'm still working out the path for the hoses. I picked up a couple of 120 degree #10 fittings to rout them down by the block. Scotty (OzVenom welded the AN fittings onto the water pump for me. He did a top job as usual.). I'll pick up some hose today and run them in. The other end has some bulkhead fittings I've machined up to go through the fire wall.

I wasn't keen on Ians bracket so made my own. I guess I wasn't happy about the steering support just being attached to the fiberglass. I made the bracket so it wraps around the end of the foot box and is fixed in 2 planes rather than just one. I also glassed some steel plates into the end of the foot box with nuts welded to them. This provides some extra support and also makes it easy to bolt in by myself rather than having someone holding a spanner in the end of the footbox. The whole thing is super rigid so I think it worked. I've still got to clean up the glass and get some bolts the right length.

Cheers