Been a long time but some progress.

Its been a long time, but there is some progress. I finally brought her home, seeing as most of the major fabrication work is complete I didn't have any more reasons to leave it at work, also being that work has been getting very busy it was just getting in the way.

Now that it's home I can also spend an hour or two every couple days (although work has had me travelling a lot lately) and hopefully I can get more done to it quicker than doing the odd weekend once a month. Recently I was able to start cleaning up and painted the fuel tank, modifying the old tank to accept the new ION fuel pump setup actually isn't going to be that difficult, I'll be doing it soon and I post up pictures of the installation of the pump. I've also started prepping the engine for the turbo coolant lines and oil feed lines, plus I've gotten the gaskets in to mount the intake/exhaust and turbo. Running the coolant lines for the turbo was "interesting", since I'm not going to be running a HVAC system I'm using the coolant lines for the heater core for the turbo, but this is going to be fun since one of the lines was really close to the turbo header. To fix this I removed the pressed in coolant tube and I'm going to tap the housing with a 1/2-14 NPT fitting and from there I can use standard fittings and to connect to the turbo with -6AN fittings. Problem is finding a 1/2-14NPT tap that wouldn't break the bank........for this there's Ebay and the Chinese, especially since it's tapping aluminum and I'll only need it twice.

Also started to connect the shifter cables, have some problems here since I got new and better cables but they measured up differently than the mock up pair so it will require some adjustments to brackets and a spacer or two.

I'll post up pics of the progress as it goes but here's a couple pictures of the current state.