Couple more small updates, just finishing up some loose ends while waiting for progress on my manifold and motor. Just waiting on the EFR vband flange to show up for the manifold build to start and last I heard the machine work was completed on the block earlier this week, hoping for that to be done in a few weeks so assembly on the rest of the car can start.
Cuts made in the transmission tunnel for the TII shifter to fit because of the longer transmission.
Someone brought up that the mounts on just the bottom side of the car for the transmission might not be strong enough, so with the entire theme of this build and overdoing everything we went back and added bolt on plates from the top side to give it a bit more strength. The original mounts probably would have been fine but while we're in there may as well do this as well. Doesn't hurt.
Then there was an issue with the starter. The way it mounted to the adapter plate meant that the trans would need to be removed to change the starter in case it ever failed. Rather than dealing with that a helicoil was added to the adapter plate to allow for easy r&r of the starter.
All together again
Then the power steering delete on the rack was cleaned up. I did it really ghetto last time since it was a last minute thing when I was putting the car together and I just had the lines crimped and twisted. Not like anyone will ever see this but its a bit cleaner
Mock up motor back in the car for manifold fab
New hubs were installed with the axles. Pretty tight squeeze with the bigger axles so the exhaust is definitely going to have to be modified.
And a little teaser of things to come.. Hello stainless steel sexiness
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