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4 months since last post! Will try and get on top of this blog and keep more up to date. So last post saw the engine going in. Once the engine was in I tackled the cooling system. Header tank from AK was fixed to the chas*is - simple case of drilling and taping the chas*is. I also installed the rad following AK's build manual. I purchased some rubber mountings I bought some additional mounts from Rimmerbros to plug the gap. Part number for these was 500447. that a few of the hoses didn't fit very well on the rad - so I bought a couple of samco reducers from merlin motorsport. In the end I replaced all the coolant hoses with Samco hoses which look really good. I also replaced all the jubilee clips with stainless steel supplied fan - but I wasn't happy with the way you had to install this and expected it to leak. So I followed what a number of other builders have done and used an inline hose adapter with an M14 threaded hole to insert a temp sender. hose badly. Instead, fix a hose clamp or jubilee clip around the hose and use a sharp stanley blade to cut the hose - you'll end up with a Now that I had the wheels on it was time to install the engine. I was really looking forward to seeing the engine in and getting some space I bought some wheel dollies from SGS engineering which made it really easy to push the car out of the garage and position it exactly where I needed it. I then raised the back end as much as I could using the axle stands. Once we had the correct height the engine was installed from the side - same was as Tommyboy did I think. The main reason for doing this was One thing to watch out for is clearance around the bellhousing. I'm using a scattershield bellhousing - I'm not sure if these are slightly bigger but I ended up having to cut half an inch off the flange on the side and underneath. Looking on the web, this seems to be something that a lot of people end up having to do. I also found that the gearbox support bracket didn't fit. This was