Transmission Plug

January 15, 2015 -

  There is a rubber plug in the driver's side of the Tremec TKO transmission that plugs a whole which is meant for the mechanical speedometer pickup/sensor.  The rubber plug is for shipping and should be removed for driving the car.  If you are using the electrical one on the passenger side then this rubber plug should be replaced with a steel one.  I bought a steel plug from Mike Forte.  In the following photo the rubber plug is the black round thing with the vertical tab running across it.  Note that the black bolt immediately to the right is something I had to buy to hold in the new steel plug and I just had it placed there for safe keeping.  the bolt is a 1/4 x 20 x 0.75 long bolt.  (I opted for the harder steel one which is better for auto uses.)

  Below you can see the metal plug taking its place which has a tab on the right with a hole that lets the bolt tighten it down.

  Something else I thought I would play with is seeing if I could move the passenger exhaust tube that connects to the header so that it would line up better with the body cutout.  Here is is when I put the body on:

  Here it is after a little fiddling.... An improvement I think.

Fuel Pressure Regulator Plug

January 5, 2015 -

  I had fuel leaking out of the fuel pressure regulator on the front port where the gauge was attached.  It was only a slow drip but fuel in a hot engine bay would be bad.  It took a while figuring out what the right size fitting is but it is 8AN. I bought a 8 AN plug on Amazon for 3$ that was a Jegs product.  I think I might even go back to my original fuel pressure regulator post and update it to state the size since this was so hard to figure out.  I haven't run the engine yet to leak test it though....

Small Lights

January 4, 2015 -

  I put on some of the smaller lights today.  Its not quite as easy as you'd imagine.  Even if you've had the factory cut the holes for them, the bolt holes probably aren't in the right place and you'll need to file them out so that the lights' bolts do fit.  The tail lights, particularly the driver's side, can be a little tough to screw the nut on since you have to reach behind the body in a tighter space between the body and gas tank and you can't see anything. Lastly, the outer ring on one of my turn signals seems to be loose and I'm not sure how to tighten it.

Trunk

January 1, 2015 -

  With some help from Michele I got the trunk put attached.  I'd strongly recommend another hand with the trunk as it makes it much easier having someone just hold the fiberglass while you attach it and also hold it while you have to keep opening and closing it to make adjustments to get it to fit.  I didn't file very much off the edges as I'm going to leave the sanding and bodywork to the body shop when they do the final paint job. I'm just looking for a rough fit.  Here's Michele helping out:

  Michele wanted one of me.  Also, this is the new garage that is well lit and warm!

  The trunk handle is nice once you get that on so you don't have to lift the trunk hood by the hole.  The lock can be a little sticky so be patient.

  I wasn't sure about the latch pin.  It goes through the hole in the fiberglass which you can see below, but then is supposed to go through a hole in the frame but this is blocked by the aluminum panel already in place. I'm dreading the idea of having to drop the gas tank again to get this pin in, so I thought I would stop and ask around about this before continuing.