The exhaust mounts that I have decided to use finally arrived. Spent a couple of hours using a lathe to make fixings to hold them in place. It involved taking a bolt and then machining it to remove the threaded section before drilling the centre out and tapping it to 8mm. Will hopefully fit to car tomorrow.
It’s taken a few days but have managed to fabricate a exhaust system and connect it to the manifold I purchased. Now I just need to sort out the mounts to hold it in place.
Spent the last few days modifying the rear radius rods to be adjustable and fitting the rear axle properly. It was then found that the axle was hitting the wooden chassis. The shock absorber was disconnected from its top mount on the side that had the issue and axle adjusted to clear wooden chassis. In photo below you can then see shock absorber was then no longer aligned to the hole in the bracket (probably 5mm error).
Bracket was removed, hole welded up and re drilled into correct place. I’m sure I’ll have to make a few more adjustment like this as I reassemble the car.
fitted some of the auxiliary items in the engine bay and started making up new brake lines today.
Put he engine in and out of car a few times and made some adjustments to gearbox cross member before finally drilling and fitting to car.
