Long Couple of Weeks

It's been an eventful 2 weeks, with very little progress on the Coupe as a result. Between severe weather, painting a couple rooms of the house, and other items we have spent very little time in the garage.

We did fit the rear hatch. I didn't take a picture, but we have trimmed it for a preliminary fit and have attached it to the metal frame. We will pull it out again for a final fit once the car is painted.

We also discovered the car had settled to an inch lower than the already-low 4 inches of ground clearance in front (4.5" in back). We put the car back on jackstance and made the adjustments, but this will throw off the alignment we recently did. D'oh!

While the car was on jack stands we tried fitting the side pipes. We discovered that the exhaust headers need to be trimmed about 1/5 inches on both sides of the car. We don't have room to trim them easily with the body in place, so we'll tackle that when we have the body off.

We've documented a punch list of items to work on before we start on the body work. We need to attach the mirrors. We also need to drill holes in the cowl for the windshield wiper mounts. We'll probably tackle a few other items as well, then cover everything under the body with plastic and get out the sandpaper. We should be starting on the body work by early June!