Water rail
I was all ready to permanently fit the water rail to the engine only to work out that it would make fitting the headers difficult once the engine was in the car and it also requires removing the one of the eye bolts I use to sling the engine. I'm not complaining too much though because I now know how it goes on and that it's straight forward. I also worked out that the temperature sensor for the Speedhut water temp gauge fits in place of one of the smaller bungs. Below is what it looks like installed.
Flywheel etc
So while I had the engine on the bench, as a trial I also fitted the flywheel, friction plate, clutch cover plate and bell housing. Again just as well as I don't have all the bolts for the bellhousing.
Gearbox
The bellhousing bolts made me think it would be wise to trial fit the clutch slave cylinder and bellhousing the the gearbox but I appear to have everything there.
Dash
I've finally got all the holes for the dash finished but I've realised because the Speedhut use a standard wiring for all their gauges and supply harnesses to match, I'm going to have to rationalise the Birkin-supplied harness just to remove a fair whack of un-needed wires. Once I've finalised the harnesses I'll fit the gauges.
Pedal box
I've also bolted in the pedal box. Interesting in that the housing for the accelerator cable is bolted to the side of the pedal box but has to unbolted and moved down for installation.
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