Thanks - hoping it does look mostly factory! There is very little tolerance with all the bits that need to fit together....
I trimmed up the fiberglass a bit, added in a few extra bits which I'd missed, and installed it over the gear lever base, then added the instrument binnacle.
The binnacle only attaches to the fiberglass scuttle directly in one place, the other two points (circled in yellow) attach to the main fascia panel, so in the pic it's not really attached to much. The yellow arrow is where the binnacle attaches to the new part - the fiberglass is at an angle here, so I backfilled the space so the nut will sit flat - I didn't get the fancy pulsert with plastic tube
The board I made surrounding the gear lever does not curve enough, so will need to remake that part - it needs to curve to match the surface profile of the gear lever base. I'm still hoping to fit the clock where the white board is, but it will be tight....the clock is quite long and the angle of the face makes it interfere a bit.
Here's a page from the service notes on how it fits together.
I did have an extra, very homemade looking plate, installed to clamp the binnacle to the the fiberglass - circled below. Will try to remember to keep an eye on that when reassembling one day....
Whilst I had the fiberglassing materials out.....
The left hand side head light did not sit flush with the bodywork, it was about 5mm too low at the red arrow. I decided that the easiest fix was to cut the inner lip in the corner - yellow lines, then push that corner up 5mm's, fill the gap with epoxy filler and put a layer of fiberglass over it.
After a bit of cleaning up, there is a much better fit to the headlight pod - I didn't have enough hands to hold the pod in place and take the pic...
The Lexus engine doesn't have an oil cooler, so I am not using one (for now - it can be added later, connecting up to the remote oil filler lines if necessary). It does have a gearbox oil cooler though, so I am using the excel one. Below is what it al looked like when I got the car - the gearbox cooler is on the left. It is not the standard one for the car, and was lifted off the mounting rail with a fairly flimsy aluminium bracket, and then strapped to the bracket with a strap - the black/rusty bit you can see - which clamped it all together and blocked a good chunk of the cooler....
I bent up some aluminum, drilled a few holes and got a set of these.
And all mounted up - on the right hand side now where the Lexus gearbox oil cooler lines run. The engine ones run on the left, so that will all work out if required.
And then I started working on the air intake/filter system....
Neil.