The throttle setup, converted from the electronic standard one to a cable operated setup, touched slightly on the block. A careful couple of minutes of filing made sure it ran freely. On the outrun to the back of the engine of the cable I mounted two rubber P-clips to guide the cable across. I think I’ll put some …

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To complete the engine—gearbox mating I just need one part now, which is the pilot bearing for the front of the gearbox. I ordered the original GM-part earlier, not realising my Tremec gearbox is of the Ford variety, which has slightly different dimensions. So, I still can not complete the mating, but there's lots …

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Continuing with little jobs to finish the rear end backend. First up was the final assembly of the top bolts on the diff. It's not exactly clear to what value these should be torqued, but I guess the value of the original Jaguar bolts will come close. The lock-wire went considerably smoother than earlier (on the …

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Going from the engine to the back of the car I wanted to trial fit as best as possible the complete exhaust to see where it will attach to the chassis, how much clearance it gives etc. Starting at the headers, which are quite nicely made, I noticed that on the right side the frontmost sparkplug lead and the second …

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Fetched about half the ordered parts from speedon on friday. The other half still wasn't there! Come on GD, I've been waiting forever now. Apart from unpacking and identifying what is what I went about on a trial fitting spree. The gearbox was the bottleneck for delivery, (Tremec == GM so that may have …

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