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!