I’d bought some more ally 90’s to finish off the plumbing again so with the intercooler hung on it’s new brackets I measured up to cut them down to suit. Once I was happy that it would work I started clamping it all up before checking that it cleared the wheels. It took a lot of adjusting to get it really tight and now has about half an inch on full lock so that should be fine. I left the intercooler on the higher of the two bracket holes so if it scrapes anything it’ll be the chassis first. I think I’ll get some mesh to save it from stones too. A quick test drive confirmed it was all fine, and I managed to accelerate at .06G when I blipped it too. Sounds impressive anyway. I also discovered the one way valve on the brake booster is not working when I lost the brakes. Wont do that again in a hurry.

Next on the list was to tidy up as the garage was filthy. With the worst of it done I wired in the AC/Heater system earth and the compressor control wires out into the engine bay. The seats were swapped left to right so needed the seat belt mounts swapping which was easy enough to do apart from a little trimming of the covers here and there. I got the back seat down from the roof and gave it a clean before putting it in, then got all the garnish mouldings down and fitted the front and rear on the drivers side. I’m hoping to get it watertight before the MOT test as it has been raining here for what seems like months. With a bit of luck I’ll get the other side done when I turn the car around.