Moving along to interior sheet metal, plumbing,shift linkage and headers. I laid out the shift linkage before the headers as I wanted to get the straightest run to the gearbox. I fabbed up the shifter as a copy of a formula car or Hewland style shifter, but one that gives more travel as the Porsche in original form needs .8in from the neutral position to engaged and a Hewland only needs .5in. The shifter and main rod that slides through the bearing supports were later hard-chromed for reduced friction with minimal lube as not to attract too much dust and dirt.I installed aluminum slugs in the end of the tubes and fabbed up washers that support the tube without crushing it when the bolt is tightened.
I need to mention that the engine is joined to the trans by and adapter plate and clutch by Kennedy. I will get to the clutch actuation later..
The interior sheet metal was easy as I just used the original parts as patterns. You can see in my pics that I like to mock things up as complete as possible, even if that means resorting to using cardboard to mimic something so that I can see how the real part's dimensions will interact with things around it. I call it my version of CAD..............Cardboard Aided Design!!
I ran the cooling pipes out and around the driver's compartment. Done with the intention of keeping as much from me heats as possible, I think I would do it differently next time as I found that Huffaker later on ran his under a false floor in the passenger side, which gives a more direct run up to the radiator,instead of behind the right front tire. I went a little overkill on the radiator. It is the same size that can cool a 700hp Trans Am car!! I have had to do some tricks in the water pump and rad inlet duct just to be able to build some heat in the engine as I run it on days less than 90deg F!!
I decided to run an accusump and the early LS6 "batwing" oil pan as they have been run on a roadcourse over 1.5gs with no starvation issues,and besides, I just didn't have the budget for a drysump and my main goal was to just get this thing onto the track and upgrade it later. in 2 1/2 seasons I have not had an oiling issue. I installed a fairly large oil cooler continuing my trend of overcooling. The intake is the stock LS6, just turned around with a Camaro throttle body.