And yet more work accomplished. I think we've worked on the car/garage/components every day since the 26th. Going to need a night off.
Pressed bushing into the rear end and mocked it up at ride height. Also got x-y-z coordinates for all the suspension pickup points (was a day of work a couple of weeks ago) on the rear and fed them into our suspension simulation. The rear is a scary thing on this car, but with some careful considerations it can be made to work well. Bushings did well, panhard mounts mocked up too.
Also mounted the seat in the car to get a feel for how everything lines up. First off, this car is huge inside. Chris at Competition Cages did a great job of pushing the cage out to the outside dimensions of the car at every opportunity. Lots of room and that is a welcome change from the Z. Not for everyone I'm sure, but I like it. However, being a large car with a large interior volume, I look like a midget sitting in it. Lots of space for components and an extra seat if one wanted to use the car for DEs, track days, instruction, etc.
Up next will be spare motor dis-assembly and a lot of parts organization upstairs in the garage. We need to build some shelves and get stuff in their proper places. We've got so many parts of stairs - three subframes, axle, engine block, heads, hoods, fenders, doors, two complete Mustang suspensions, stacks of rotors, piles of calipers - the list goes on and on. We have an electric winch tied to a huge beam that we use to hoist up the heavy bits. At some point we need to say no to more parts.
Did some more work on the ECU programming so I could understand that. Man, coordinating all these tasking for building a new race car is a full time job. It is a lot of fun but it sucks up some time.