UniBrain Trust

A big day in the restoration. I invited some friends over to the house and installed the body on the chassis. This went much easier than I expected with only onesmall mistake. Since the TTR chassis does not come with the mounting holes pre-drilled we needed to mark and drill the 16mounting holes. All of them line up except the one that goes into the left front shock tower. The hole is about a half diameter off.Tomorrow I’ll figure out how to fix this. I think I’ll need to enlarge the hole in the body bobbin.

Temporarily installed the header to check for clearance. Everything clears, so now I’ll send it off to be ceramic coated. Spent some time today mounting the engine and gearbox into the chassis.

A very importantthing to remember is which side of the engine the spacers go. I hadthe mounts and spacers in a bag all nice and labeled. I took thebits out of the bag, yesterday, and set them on the bench. Today Ihad forgotten which bag they came from. Oops. After a bit of trialand error I figure out they go on the left side. Also needed todrill holes for the transmission cross member. I also made sure torepaint inside the holes to stop (slow?) any future rusting.Ran the fuel line. On the TTR chassis, the underside of the top rail has been gusseted for added strength.

Unfortunately this blocks one of the holes the stock fuel line runsthrough. I carefully cut a flap in the added gusset to run the fuelline. I also enlarged the existing holes and added grommets inorder to accommodate the Aeroquip -6 line.

Brought the engine home and put it in the garage. My wife made the
observation that this was the first time in over a year that all
the parts of the car were under the same roof.