(Not pictured: the obligatory beverage) Go round in circles for a bit, and voilà! I didn't quite get to place the fuel pump hole where I'd originally planned, due to conflicting with the fuel tank straps. It's sat further out than I would've liked, but I didn't want to end up running

So, on the bank holiday monday, I did a little more measuring and confirmed that I should be able to get the manifold as-built to fit under the engine cover with a bit over an inch of clearance. Satisfied with this, I committed to more welding! And a bit more...

Templates drawn. I would have preferred to have these cut by cnc plasma, or something, but I haven't yet gotten myself to the point I can make up and send out a drawing for someone else to cut it. So how do we make those?

Didn't manage to grab my drill from work, because my saturday morning shift turned into a most-of-saturday driver cpc instead. And without my drill, I can't make up the other injector hold-downs. Painted a bit, instead. And, just as the rain rolled in, loosely bolted the front wing on for the time bean, to keep it out of the way

Lovely. (Pay no mind to the slightly wonky bolt.) Then, follow this up with some additional fettling (carefully applied weld, then dress back with a file) to ensure as snug a fit as possible. That'll do nicely. Next step, pull all the new inlet runners back off the engine and try them in the fixture.

brushie brushie brushie< That's coming along quite nicely. I also gave the nearside front wing a cleaning and another coat, too, since I had the paint out. Really should finish repairing that cheek panel, so that I can refit this one, at some point.

First off for this evening, let's start with that fixture plate. A 33" long piece of 100x16mm should do nicely. Spend an hour and a half measuring, marking, re-measuring, re-marking, re-re-measuring, head-scratching, drinking coffee and thinking real hard, then measuring again just to make sure. It's recommended you do

Another coat of paint has definitely made a big difference to the side of the truck. It really does take a few coats to build up the opacity. And I got one tab welded onto the air pipe, and as expected that was the last dregs of the argon.