A bit of time has passed since my last post trial fitting the engine. After thinking through the lack of clearance between the bell housing bolt heads and the chassis I did slot the chassis engine mountings and moved everything 10mm forwards. I then jacked up the o/s of the engine to establish how deep the spacer needed to be to get the engine away from the pedal box area. I settled on 6mm and turned up a spacer to fit under the mount. I am now happy that the engine will not touch the chassis even under very harsh loading.

The gearbox mounting was straight forward to fit. I did grind about 5mm of the vertical strengthener to provide more clearance for the gearbox housing.

With the engine in I was able to plan exactly where I wanted all the various front to rear lines to go. I need room for two fuel, one brake and one fire extinguisher. Add to this the wiring loom it its going to get very busy in the transmission tunnel. This agreed in my head I removed the engine so that I could make a start on fuel and brake lines. This has been straight forward although a fair bit of swearing crept in in places. I managed to kink one of the fuel lines twice so I now have lots of short spare bit!

At this point as I am not sure I am happy with the fuel lines. I have left them loose until I either do them again or become happy with them with everything else in place.

Next up is the cockpit panels.