Progress so far

After a week of hard work, running around for tools  bolts and washers I have made some good progress as shown below:

Some things on the build went really well, just as the manual shows. For instance the front

end of the car went together easily, the caster was spot on straight away and it was complete in a day.

The back and engine was a different story.

I needed 2mm of shim on the drivers side, 6mm on the passenger. Jaguar dont do a 2mm shim (and right/left are different). AK do however do 1mm shims but I realised the

diff normally has a speed sensor on the left which is 2mm thick. This was much cheaper than the Jaguar shim (£10 vs £35) and it tidies up the diff a little so I installed one of those on the drivers side to solve the problem

Another speed sensor plus a 4mm shim on the passenger side should achieve the required offset so this is on order.

Waiting for the shims causes a delay so watch out for this. There were major issues getting the diff and diff tie bars to line up. Both tie bars needed to be modified to fit into their brackets, the plate which takes the top rear bolts on the diff wasn't well shaped at all and needed quite a bit grinding off to allow the diff to raise into position and the differential rear carrier needed the holes adjusting to get the tie bar to line up.

Additionally, the kit doesnt come with enough 1.5" x 7/8ths washers so I strongly recommend getting 10-20 of these to save some time running out to the hardware shop. 

You'll also need additional M12 and M14 nyloc nuts, 7/16ths bolts for the Diff, 2 of M16 x 2 nuts for the diff and plenty of washers and M10 x 35 and 70 bolts, nuts and washers.

I also used M5 and M6 Rivnuts, bolts and spring washers for various jobs such as brake and fuel lines. 

Finally you will need some threadlok.

Getting the gearbox to mount to the engine was a bit of a headache. Eventually I took advice from Brian at Roadcraft. He explained I needed to remove the outer bearing on the crankshaft for the LS6. Everything went together and it was lifted into position. 

Its currently hitting against the chassis on the drivers side so something is out of alignment and the water pipe mount will foul on the upper front wishbone. I'll post solutions to this when I get chance. 

Progress will slow a little now as I return to work next week so will have limited time.