Chassis Returns from Gunnars with the body fabricated and installed, Now to the Final Assembly

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Chris Ridgeway brings the chassis back from Gunnars. He's GREAT! left West Palm Bch. Sunday arrives Wed noon Long Beach Ca.	Chris and his father make a good team, Careful and efficent , Highly Recomended	Set of Orginal CIBIE headlights with retaining rings
H/L bucket ready for the CIBIE lights	Kent Morgan came by on Saturday to help put in the headlights. He' s kinda GOOFY looking Eh!!	Kent finished installing the Headlights, Front view
Headlights top view	Headlights rear view, we still have to make the rear covers	We remove the rear supension and id the final check befor reinstalling it. Now ready to install the transaxle
L/R supension Ready	L/R supension from the inside	R/R supension ready
Reinstalling the shifter. Thats a first gear lockout , Reverse lockout is on a seprate lever	Rear view of the shifter, There are 14 parts to this assy.	Shifter attached in the sidepod
the Pedal assy. W/O master cylinders installed , View from the front of the car	Rear view of the pedal assy.	Armando & Gustauv ( Abuelo) doing some fnishing touches on the engine
Harro ( X Works electrician) starting on the wireing	Ricardo makeing templates for the firewall heat insulation	The firewall insulation installed
Engine and transaxle bolted together. A rare sight as they are installed in the car sepratley	The ballast resistor wire wound onto the board	Fiberglassing the wire to keep it in place
The ballast resistors mounted on the left firewall	The CD ignition units mounted	Borg & Beck triple plate clutch assy, Checking installed height
Side view of the clutch assy. Note the ballancing numbers allinged	Input end of the transaxle	Set of headers sandblasted and heat painted ready to install
Bottom view of engine with the headers insalled. Very rare shot	Rear view of engine with the headers on	Chassis Rear View
Gustauv in back making the rear brake lines	Left & right rear brake lines done	Armando upfront putting in the master cyls. and resivors
Master cyls. installed	Starting to install the engine	Sliding it down in
Engine and transmission in	Rear view	The worst of all the jobs on the car, Working under the dash.
Using the factory tools to make the oil & fuel lines	Gustauv & Ricardo making fuel lines	Installing the fuel pumps , filter,& lines
The interior is coming along. The unatainable dash lights were a gift from Jim Torres, THANKS JIM	Going at it Friday morning. You can just see Kents feet his picture comes out better this way	Carl ( Grouchy ) first time sitting in the car so we can make the seat poistioning correct
Kent grinding the seat base shell getting it ready to fiberglass in	Gustauv using another factory tool ( borrowed from Ron at Morsespeed THANKS RON ) to flare the brake pipes	The tool does a great job , Here is what a flared end looks like
Lunch Break	Postman bringing a very hard to find 8 pole fusebox complements of Gary Emory ( TAHNKS GARY)	Harro looking at the new fuse box
Kent fitting the rear window	Kents 6 feet tall , A tight squeeze for him to works on the inside	Rear window installed
Rear window back view	Making the wire loom Lots of wires	More wires
Even more wires	The starter rebuilt and ready for instalation	Wiper Motor installed
kent placing the reverse gear lockout lever	Brake parts ready for assembly	Armando instaling the hats on the rotors
Right front supension installed.	Left front supension installed	The Girling caliper parts
A caliper assembled & mounted ( notice the titanimum bolts)	Simon ( A+ fabricator) extending the orginal fuel tank on the right side of the car. A bladder will be made to fit inside.	Simon farther along
Diffrent types of 917 calipers, Starting on the left , Teves Ate, Gulf Girling conversion, Girling, ATE cross fin, ATE Late.	Side view.	Textar 1431G Brake pads for the ATE & Gulf Girling calipers
Rear calipers installed	Front Calipers installed	Just a evening shot
Same shot from a little higher	Rear shift linkage installed	Kent Fitting the H/L covers
Hey Ces ! Heres proof that Morgan is Moonlighting	All the switches installed & wired	All 4 ignition units and relays wired
The numbers on the side of the CDs	Roman showed up today with the proper fuel pump clamps he fabricated for us. We only had 1 it takes 3	Showing the left BOSCH fuel pump mounted in chassis THANKS to Wolfgang from Bosch for the pumps
The 2 BOSCH fuel pumps on the right side of the car	We cut the hole in the firewall today so you can get acess to the timing marks when the engine is in he car. Next the cover	Armando in the car making the timing cover ( Being short has its advantages)
Droping the extended R/H fuel tank ( that Simon made)off at Aero Teck Service to get a fuel cell made.	Lots of instructions written on top of the fuel tank about fittings , baffels, and vents	Gustauv putting on the R/F brake air duct & hose ( The rotor is a right but came drilled for the left, A exchange is on the way
The L/F brake air duct & hose installed	The L/F brake cooling hose in the nose :-)	Fitting the tail section to the engine. Kevin could not do this when he fit the body as there was no engine in the chassis
Trimming the rear tail section	Trimming the engine cover	More fitting , you never get it all the first time. It takes several fittings
We are upgrading to the 917/10 style brake ducts in the rear as they are more efficent and will give us better tranny cooling	Gustauv is making the brackets for the rear brake duct	Duct on the upright outer view
Its always nice to have a wheel to stand on!	Harro fabricating the holding bracket for the catch tank	A view of how the bracket looks towards the inside
Holding the catch tank in place to make measurements	The battery mounted in a metal tray with a metal strap to meet the new rules, ( no more fiberglass and rubber straps)	Carl sitting in the car to figure out the mirror height and seat belt holes( Of course he's smiling woulden't you smile too)
Harro installing the insturments	View of the dash hru the steering wheel	Closer view of the insturments
Glueing the felt on the dash	Insturment bubble covered	First Smoke! sure is noisy!
Camloc fastners for the hood	Carefuly drilling the holes for the camloc's	Filing the holes for the correct fit
Camloc base installed	The new Aero Teck fuel cell next t the tank	The label on the new fuel cell
Some of the intricate shapes that Aero Teck had to make.	MVC-026S.JPG	The oil tank out of the car to install the felt protection
Another view of the oil tank	Back to covering the dash, Taping up everything so I don't spray glue where I don't want it	Covering in process
More glueing, cutting and fitting	Finished right view	Left view
Top right view	Kent drilling,coutersinking,and screwing in the door glasses.( I glad he did it I am afraid of breaking the Perspect. plexiglass	Catch Tank instalation finished
Inside view of catch tank	Not finished yet but getting close,	Its going to look OK, Tomorrow we will install the windsheild
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