That's a good idea, I'll just run it through the travel and see if I have any issues.
As for the glass, I was able to have my father-in-law stop over and let the guy in this past Friday. It was a combination of me being at a conference all last week and their schedule for the week before. But now the glass is installed for good! I had to install all of the trim clips before they installed the glass. I'm very happy that I ended up buying new glass. I wouldn't have been happy with the old glass with scratches and delamination.


Before I could install the new glass I wanted to get the VIN tag reinstalled. Cleaned it up and resprayed it to match the dash.

And with the new glass! So happy with the way it turned out and I ended up getting the glass with the slight green tint and top dark strip.


Next up on my list of things to do was finishing my exhaust. If this was one place that I was going to go a little cheap on it is here. I didn't want to spend a lot for a few reasons. I'm not entirely sure what the future will hold for me. I would like to try my luck with a turbo and that would mean I woudln't use the majority of this system. On the other hand, I may want to stay NA and get a proper exhaust with long tubes and etc. Either way I basically re-used exhaust pieces that I had or had given to me. I've got about $100 bucks into it including the headers, v-bands for the headers, x-pipe kit, and Flowmaster Super 40 mufflers.
It took quite a while to get all the pipes lined up and kept in the center. I got the 3" pipes as close to the floor as possible while still leaving room for it to have proper airflow.




Then I was able to get the mufflers on and fully welded. I'll be running turn down's for the time being while I think about if I want tail pipes or not.

Then I sprayed some high temp paint to help with rust.


Doesn't look like it, but there is plenty of room around the driveshaft for it to move up and down.

I'm very happy with how the exhaust tucked up so nicely. The notches in the transmission crossmember helped out tremendously with this effort. This is roughly level with the frame.

And from even lower.

I started it up quick to see what it would sound like and it has a low mellow rumble which I was really digging. But It had a few exhaust leaks to fix before I can get a true sound. I just need to get some exhaust clamps and weld on some hangers.
One of the next smaller projects I have been working on for the last few weeks was my cooling fan project. I bought a universal 14" cooling fan before I bought this dual pass radiator with shroud, but the fan shroud is for a 16" cooling fan. Being that this is a Penny Pincher project, I gave it some thought, took a few measurements and decided to make an adapter ring. I had a sheet of heavier gauge stainless from my gas tank project I didn't and that fit the bill.
Started out with my trusty cardboard template.


Then I translated those measurements to my stainless sheet. Wow, does stainless cut hard...



I welded some stainless studs to the back side of the adapter ring for the fan to bolt to then used the existing weld nuts that were on the shroud to mount the ring assembly to the shroud. I also was a little disappointed with the shroud itself. I bought them as a pair so that I could minimize my fabrication and turned out that the fan shroud was about 1/4" too wide to fit between the radiator tanks like it was supposed to. After giving it some thought I trimmed the top and bottom widths to match the radiator and bent the sides in to match. It worked well, but was disappointed that I had to modify something that was supposed to work together. Here is the complete assembly waiting to go back in.

I'm hoping to get the last few things on my list done this week and schedule an appointment to get the car inspected. I tried to tackle the harder things first, so now that the windshield and exhaust is nearly done, I should be able to get the last few things done this week. I'm basically down to: functional wipers, lower trim on the front glass (holds down the cowl piece), seatbelts, side mirrors, horn, re-install front end/hood/cowl and double check signal wiring.
Keeping my fingers crossed!
Cheers,
Ryan