So made some progress yesterday as I had some help from the "Boeing" boys (Nick and James who I race with) and Jeff (building a MkIV Roadster). We got one of the anti-intrusion panels installed and got the engine and transmission installed.

So the anti-intrusion panel (1/8th inch steel) is installed on passenger side, minor fit issues due to welds, but nothing an angle grinder can't fix

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Engine and trans took more time, we chose to block off the trans mission when not attached to engine, that went fine no issues, installed new clutch/pressure plate, pilot bearing, no issues, the throw out bearing was a little harder (not seen this kind of setup before. Once that was done we attached trans to engine and they lifted engine and trans into car, the major issue we had was getting the axles in place, after some struggling we got that done and then put the transmission mount in first and then lowered the front of the engine in place and all went in.

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