Not too much to report for the past week or so. I did order a pair of the rear vent wing rubbers that recently appeared on Ebay - I forgot to get one of these when Pop was still trading and thought I'd not manage to find them again. The rubber turned up in record time and is a nice quality item. I'll let you know how it fits. If you're missing these parts I'd reccomend you snap some up before they all go.

The other thing that I managed to sort out is the rear engine bar. Somehow it managed to do a disappearing act at work (whilst some restructuring work was carried out) after finding it again I set to straightening it out. The rear engine bar is from a 2.0 litre combi and has an offset bend on the left side to clear the oil cooler and tin-wear. As this isn't needed on my engine I decided to straighten it out.

Straightening it was simply a case of heating it to cherry red using an oxy-acetaline torch and then carefully 'bending' it until straight. All that's left to do now is shorten it to the correct length and weld on the mountings I had made to the ends.

The mountings are to marry up to standard Porsche 911 engine mounts - these will be fitted into custom fabricated brackets that site in the rear corners of the engine bay - very similar to a stock 911.

The ends will have to wait until I finish the new rear suspension setup so that I can take some accurate measurements with the engine and box in situ.