plenty of holiday progress!

Over the Christmas break I have been able to spend some reasonable hours on the car. This has resulted in the following:

subframe top-coated and now complete. Rear brake lines installed:

various suspension components rubbed down, cleaned and re-painted:

alternator lower bracket fabricated:

throttle cable linkage bracket fabricated. I've made this adjustable so I should be able to get a set-up which works well when the engine goes back in the car.

 Oil coolers have arrived. Settled on a 7 row cooler for the gearbox oil. This will be positioned in the left cooling duct. 30 row cooler for the engine oil, this will be positioned behind the right hand air duct, and right next to the dry sump tank which it will feed:

EliseParts GT rear uprights. These have a massive number of advantages: lighter, stronger, 16mm lowering of the car whilst maintain correct shock length, and they take S2 bearing packs so I can run 4 x 100 wheel stud PCD which is a much more common than the S1 PCD of 4 x 95.25!

I cannot refit the engine for the final time until I complete a solution for the camshaft driven alternator pulley attachment. This is because it fits into the front of the camshaft sprocket and ends up pretty close behind the bulkhead once the engine is installed.