I'm following the headers with keen interest Marty as I will be fabricating an exhaust from the turbo back for the current build.

yup, as Marty said.
I got a 3m length of 2.5" stainless tube locally, some 90's and quick clamp off ali, a hotdog and a muffler of ebay.
Just need some odds and ends, including an O2 bung, then ready to get chopping once the engines in..
Dave's Garage  just migged his headers up, but I hope to learn to do some TIG as well on this.
 
Plus, if and when the ITBS and Speeduino part goes in, then Martys 3D intake kit will be usefull to assist in the design.
What a clever bunch of old farts we are.
 

I'm still progressing on with the roof skin on the mk1 , slow process adding filler, waiting for it to set, sanding it and repeat. To put it in perspective in using a 300mm wide applicator so I don't shape it wrong. I bought a 25mtr roll of p40 to really eat into the filler. Even tho it looks a lot has been layered on there, I estimate the thickest is maybe 3mm and a majority has been sanded off and is on the floor now.



Enjoy your ANZAC day holiday everyone, do the right thing and go to a morning service, we are .

I've had this in the box for nearly a year, kind of bought it near the end of winter , as we're heading into the cooler weather I took the heater into the shed and thought ways of installing it without being in the way. This is an 8kw diesel heater which is 12v

More to make Deano smile is I used gasless dry weld the mounting shelf and screwed to the brick wall. As the heater comes with tubes and exhaust pipe to help install in the truck or caravan etc, but I
went a bit further. I found a length of poly pipe and used that for the cold air intake , I used plastic plumbing elbows and heated the tube to allow them to fit tight.

Next was to find something for the exhaust pipe, I found a derelict metal ladder in the steel pile and thought, that'll do perfectly, I just needed to shrink the joiner down to 25mm so the flex pipe slides into, I just V slotted the end and hammered them together and welded. I make mounting tabs to screw into the wall with. Then it needed to go up the wall so a intermediate piece was cut and welded on then the vertical piece welded on.

And this is the end bit aiming to the brick vent holes

Today I made an enclosure for the exhaust so it can only go out the vent, it was made from thin gauge sheet and folded to shape. There is also high density foam around the edges and the pipe intake hole. Once the heater gets to temp I went outside to check on the exhaust, it's very minimal and hardly any fumes, I suppose when they use about 200mls an hr on low setting it's pretty good

Now I can take on winter without going cold !

Your dry weld has it's place in the welding community however those little melted on ball bearings and holes in clothing caused by thousands of random sparklers is the main turn off. I wouldn't use it to stitch a floor pan in but will use it to make a frame or bench etc, that back window edge was a long job and would eat some gas plus it's not in a noticeable spot . Maybe I need to get onto it more . Gas weld is still the best, I'm doing a floor corner patch on the rally pack and using gas just cause it's predictable and far less mess.

With the needle/nail welder and clean up the spot where it's been is to snip the stalk off and linish the stub back, do not wiggle of the needle as it'll pull a hole in the panel, I know that by testing it.

Last weekend I asked a friend to help dredge out the van I've had sinking down to the sump and leaf springs. Got the old courier ute, plugged it in 4x4 mode and pulled it out, some silly plonka had it in gear so it skidded out.
It's a late 77 2.0 Pinto with 8mph bumpers (which got plasma cut into bits and binned) . A day to get the battery charged and fitted the starter motor, plugged in the tacho dash and other stuff. Cut the fuel line and used a beer can for the fuel tank, fuel pump still works after 16yrs laying dormant, some rust to attend to as well, most is superficial and straight forward. This is the van going to become a ute later on that I've been going on about.
Just cause it's lost a lot of panel from rust don't make it a scrapper just yet. Might paint it back to it's original Modena Green colour even tho I don't like green much, this is a bright green from the bits I can see under the blue respray.