Starting to get going somewhat.

Well, we're still waiting on the rear end and Wilwood brakes that were supposed to ship with the kit but didn't. We normally would have liked to install the rear end and brakes before moving onto anything else but we're plugging away on other items waiting on those items to arrive.

We had to install rivnuts in the frame to allow us to mount the firewall with flush mounted screws. We had to drill out 71 holes and then install the rivnuts. You had to squeeze really hard on the rivnut puller to get the rivnut to seat properly. My hand got a little tired by number 71 : ) Steve was putting the various sheet metal pieces in place to see how they would fit. I also had my # 1 apprentice Taylor, aka grasshooper, putting some touches to the engine.

I took the instrument panel down to a local auto paint shop I like to have it painted. I wanted to powder coat it, but the firewall was drilled out for a manual transmission clutch cable by mistake so we had to put a plug and body filler into the hole and body filler won't work with the powder coating process.

                                          Grasshoper putting on spark plug dress up kit

 

                                          Parts I took out to be powder coated glossy black

                                    Steve drilling out firewall holes so I could install the rivnuts

 

 

                                                                    Rear look at gas tank

 

 

                                                        Fitting sheet metal pieces in place.

 

 

                                    What will become the trunk. Don't think the clubs will fit : )

                                                    Interior pieces put in place