Back to serious stuff again, i've spent my time getting the engine and mounts to fit propperly and used a full weight engine this time to make the engine mounts compress so that i could gain as much room as possible for the inlet manifold and distributer, anyway i succeeded!!! by moving the engine another 25mm forward and moving the rad it all goes in and clears, next i made up brackets and welded them into place for the floor change as the tunnel i had was for a columb shift and very different to a floor change tunnel, i've also had to move the handbrake back and cant understand why it was origionally fitted so far forward, next was to start making a dummy tunnel/cover to cover up the gear linkage etc before trimming, i'm waiting for a new tool to arrive this week to finish the job off, i've bought an air planisher which shoud get more curvature into the panel and make it a better fit, i've welded the piece i chopped out of the inner wing for carb clearance back in and been cleaning up the extra welds that it now has and most of the bulk head is now seem welded, last job tonight was fitting the doors propperly and sorting out the knackered theads in the A posts for the hinges , moving the door striker pin brackets so the doors would latch correctly, sort out the latches out in the doors so that they work and finally go from top to bottom on the B posts with a cutting disk in the grinder (whilst doors were shut) to get a reasonable door gap, so slowely and surely its coming along but still a long way off!!!
