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July 10, 2004: Unfortunately, the plans to visit the shop with the mandrel bender fell through.
The bender has been sold. So I'm back to the original plan of cutting up pre-made bends. Too bad. I expect to ruin a few bends while doing this. I've been working on the wiring in the meantime, getting the final switches in place. Once the transmission tunnel gets here (next week, it's on the way) I'll be able to start assembling big chunks of car. I am tempted to put the side panels on one side of the car so that I can fit the rear fender. This means I can also mount the taillights and start finishing up that particular wiring. First I have to figure out which of the rear fenders is which - they're asymmetrical. I have a number of photos of various CMC builds that should help here.

Interesting note - looking through those old CMC photos, it appears they run their exhaust above the diagonal frame member. That's the first routing I tried but I had trouble getting it to work to my satisfaction. It also put the exhaust close to the master cylinders - but without the change I made to the water pump inlet, it would have been the only option. I also notice that CMC had to cut a new hole for the throttle cable bracket ain the Mitty build as well!

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