With my ambition to get the engine running I had to turn my attention back to the fuel tank.  This has bugged me for weeks as to what I should do to try and prevent any fuel surge. However, whilst the car was away I fitted a central foam baffle and two pumps. With the car back on its stands I made up two spring steel tank supporting straps and fitted the tank. I am very pleased it all fitted as planned. With the previously made fuel filter mount it looks like this:

I made up two long bolts for the rear strap mounts so that I didn't have to fiddle trying to get the bolts in and out when removing the tank. These are simply some M6 studding and nuts with a dab of weld to retain them.

One way or another it will be a while before I know if it works. However, the engine start can't be fr away now!

The cars trip to Tube Engineering has been a great success. They have done a great job making up the manifold and silencer. With this job complete I feel I can push on with the build.  I don't know why but there seems to have been some hesitation on my part completing so many part done tasks. Anyway, this is what we have back:

I am impressed with the quality of the welding and finish. I am less impressed with my decision to have the oxygen sensors on the top. However, we are where we are. Correctly wired and fitted they will look better....I hope.

Since the car has been back the real push has been to get the electrical work as complete as possible. My desire is to have no excess wiring and all circuits not required removed. This has resulted in many hours in a freezing garage cutting, splicing and then soldering and heat shrinking hundreds of joints. You can get the idea from the picture below:

I am happy with the completed job. The pile of discarded wire is amazing. So, with all that work done it starts to look like this! In my head I am happy enough but its going to take a major push to get it complete to my satisfaction and I think I have blown something in the instrument cluster as a few warning lights now do not work! However, the engine does crank! This has cheered me up. It makes proper car noises......

With the engine able to crank and all the DME and EWS wiring complete and tested you can guess what I am thinking! 

The car has been away to Tube Engineering to have the exhaust system made up. So apart from tidying up the garage and throwing away a major pile of unwanted parts from the donor car progress has been slow. 
I did finally decide on my approach to any fuel surge. My proposed solution is to do as others have done. Time will tell if it works. I am fitting two pumps. I have also fitted a central foam baffle. Once the car is back I will fit out the tank and get it installed. I have modified the wiring loom to incorporate the additional electrical supply. The pump will be switched so that its not running all the time.

Just before the car went away I did continue to modify the wiring loom to meet my requirements and fit all the additional wiring. I have struggled with the instructions from Peter. There are a number of errors with the documents and a fair number of my wires are different colours to those mentioned. I downloaded a copy of Bentleys workshop manual to get the schematics and combined, I think I have it all back under control. Again, time will tell!

Lets see what comes back from Tube Engineering, everybody so far has rated them highly so I am quite excited to see how it looks!