Exhaust headers

Remember the hole we cut in the body work? Well, today we fitted the exhaust headers and we've been relieved to find that it is indeed in the right place to allow them to exit.

The cardboard template was spot on and we are very pleased with the result.

We also fitted the drive shaft which was a simple process and at last the sum of scattered parts is starting to resemble a real car.

Engine in!

Another big day yesterday. The front of the car was lifted and the engine/ and transmission was rolled underneath. It was surprisingly easy with just two people. The front of the car was lowered by increments and the engine nudged forward and back to clear each potential obstruction, and in the end the process passed relatively free of Anglo-Saxon language. Finally, the gear box needed to be lifted with a trolley jack to slide into the tunnel and that was it.

I wish I could say the same for actually attaching the engine to the chassis. The bolts were very difficult to align and changes in the attitude of the engine when hanging from the crane were difficult to achieve accurately. After almost crossing one set of threads we decided food and wine were more important and left it for the night to come back fresh the next day for a final assault.