Assembly Time  
 
 
 
 

	My friend from work, Steve, mixing paint and getting ready to squirt the car. I cleaned up the garage pretty good, hung plastic and called it a "Spray Booth". yeah! A couple of hours later, it was Mouse Gray.
	All the tape is pulled off and ready to start pulling the wire looms in that I made almost a year ago. These two plastic saw horses are rated Bug tuff. Try doing this with a Mustang or Camaro.
	Pulled the wire looms in while it was still on the horsies and temporary installed the dash panels. Then started working on fitting the wiring plus finishing the design from a year ago. The design had a dew minor changes as I had changed to using the Haltech's staging control instead of the Mallory's two step features. More on that later. I also had to figure  out where to mount the head light power relay for the Cibie's big bulbs, and the resistor for the 6 volt wiper and semaphores
	The body has just met the pan for what I hope is a very long time. The protective paper  stuff on the roll bar is some of the greatest stuff! It's about  .06" thick and cushioniny, it has a very light tack sticky side  with the peel and stick backing. We use it at work all over $50m and up planes. There's the wires I have to clean up and make sense of ......again. Roll bar and car will be bolted together next.
	The 2x4 through the windows is my "lifting fixture" which held up the roll bar just about in a perfect position (not planned, hoped for, but I'll take it!). Two eyebolts out of  view hook to a cable "come along" hanging by 2 pulleys from a 4x4  somebody put across the garage ceiling many years before I bought the place.
	Just about 1/2 through wiring up the front end. I had filled most holes under the dash then made a bracket to hold an old 6 fuse panel instead of the stock 4. It also has 2 very good grounds for trouble free service.
	Just a few things left. Still have to hook up the dash lights, door pin switches and dome light, the ballast resistor, and windshield wiper. I'm hoping a speedo shop can make a gearbox that fits between the speedo and the cable tube. There is a lot of wire in there!!
	Yeah, even more wiring! just about done fitting the panel and its shock mounts. This is where the pan and car's wiring, Mallory Hyfire VI, Haltech F10, and the engine compartment wiring meet and mingle.
	Its Done!
	Making the seat belts fit and getting ready to pad the roll bar. Still a lot to do.
	Can't do much more here until the engine is in. Just had to put a small cut in the right side where the throttle body and air cleaner hit. That's after I modified the mounts to more center the engine. Fuel pressure regulator is in the forward right corner.
	Now have to finish this wiring, coolant temp, O2, fan relay, oil temp, etc. Bulkhead AN fitting is for fuel supply
	The starter has a relay and the taillight wiring passes across here. The down links are from Proformance in Orange, Ca.
	EFI fuel pump is a 911 Porsche part with a Golf check valve. I drilled out a Golf fuel banjo and brazed a new fuel line into it. Line lock and front brake proportioning valve mount on the other side.
	It's getting there!
	Ahhhhh! it all fits. The modified tranny mounts and the angle mill job on the right side throttle body was all worth the hassle.
	This is the start of my new fuel tank. I took the tank that the split came with and combined it with some late model donor parts. The original tank had been a critter den for at least 20 years and as a result the bottom was all rotted out. I obtained a tank bottom from a friend that he had cut out of a '76 std efi car.
	The  two tank bottoms were of a slightly different sizes and with differing radii on the 4 corners. Nothing a hammer and a few slits couldn't cure.  Tacking it together helped fit the last piece of the puzzle.
	All done, ready for media blasting, powder coating then POR 15 tank sealer in the inside. Two tanks that were on their merry way to the scrap heap now will do duty as an efi ready fuel tank.
	Whoopie!

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