Had a bit more of a play with the mani, ended up shortening the runners by 20mm and cutting the back off to get sufficient clearance for the scuttle panel.
with that test fitted it’s finally time to weld it out.
Welding 3mm plate to 10mm isn easy. It takes a lot of amps and careful torch angle, too easy to blow through the 3mm. Lucky this didn’t happen here just got a bit wobbly towards the end as it was burning my hand lol
there we go, all welded up. Still got a few bits to sort out on it, like the ICV port if I use it (I might just use the grub screw to jack the TB open a little bit at first. Then there’s the vac ports for the servo, dump valve and boost control. Again these can come a bit later as they won’t be needed for a trial fire up.
