24 September 2022 Rolled the chassis out on to the drive and set about getting her running. Pulled the spark plugs and got the new ones out and checkked the gaps. Laid them out on the top of the engine connected up to the leads with some noid lights so I could check the sparks. Turned the car over and they all seemed to be firing OK. Put them in the engine and torqued everything up. Added a small amount of fuel to the tank and tried to start it up. First few times it caught but then wouldn't run, I adjusted the throttle stop as I remembered fiddling with that the last time. Then eventually it started and settled into a nice fast idle, a bit of adjusting on the throttle stop and it idled nicely and a few blips on the throttle and it seemed to respond nicely. I let it run until the fuel ran out which got it up to temperature, I was able to check around the car and everything seemed good apart from a small exhaust blow at one of the clamp joints so I'll need to tighten that up. Feeling a lot happier now that the engine is running properley, hopefully now I can move on and get on with the jobs to finish the car. 30 September 2022 Spent the evening putting the rear lights back on the bodyshell now the inside is painted. Took most of the evening getting the pesky trim rings in! Took the dashboard off, as I plan to do some work on that shortly. 2 October 2022 Fitted the front indicators and lights. It seemed a good idea to get the immobiliser fitted so that I could finish the wrapping of the loom. Found a position for the immobiliser unit and ran the wires into their rough position. Figured out where to terminate the wires and where to splice into the loom to immobilise the car. I won't go into details or post pictures for this as it is a public page. It took longer than I expected, I did a fair amount of testing the unit before I spliced it into the circuits, but it is now in and working correctly. I will need to position the aerial in a strategic place as the range of the fobs is quite short.
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