I’d chopped the door into lots of bits to stretch it out to fill the frame better. It was all over the place, and nothing like the shape of the frame originally, but didn’t look much better as loads of tack welded bits. I clamped the door onto trestles and it was now my test for my new TIG welder. I found it a lot easier to get a nice flat weld, but also way too easy to get carried away and distort it by doing too much at a time. Ah well, I need the hammer and dollie practice. A quick buzz with a flap disk and it was done for now.

I also spent some time with the oxy/acetylene torch doing some shrinking on the back of the cab. Nothing exciting to look at, but at least it wasn’t oil canned anymore. I also found some CAD drawings for LS1 header flanges on the net, so got them cut out of cardboard on the plotter at work. They fit like a glove, just need to get them lasered out of stainless at some point. May even have a go at making my own headers if I feel brave. Or not.