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I'd like to take the time to thank a few people that made the transaxle acquisition painless, and flawless.

Driving from Toronto to meet a delivery in Buffalo isn't the easiest task to co-ordinate. Dan at Con-Way Freight, and his driver
were able to contact me, and arrange the exchange within the hour. They are able to track, and contact their drivers unlike
some companies I've dealt with. Their services are highly recommended.

My buddy Johnny Misso ...

Finally I was able to start my engine. It sounds really good, much better than on the camera...I love it.
I have little coolant leak by the thermostat housing, which I will fix today...other than that everything looks good:D

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Working on the 1st mod today. Cleaning and boxing up the Transmission from the donor car. Sending it to Modern Driveline to retrofit the T5 tail housing with an S10 . This will allow the shifter to move forward on the transmission tunnel

Delivery went well. Bob, from Stewart Transport was very helpful and we had no problem wheeling the body and chassis up into my rental garage. I pretty much immediately went to work on the inventory. The girlfriend stopped by and assumed the role of box checker while I created a pile of crate paper the size of Jabba the Hut. The backorder list wasn't too bad. The main items missing were the radiator, IRS upper and lower control arms, gas cap, rear springs (which actually arrived the day before ...

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In the picture from my last post seen here...
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...you can see I've already started a collection of parts.

I've been trying to lay out parts in the general vicinity of their location on the car. I'm sure this system will quickly fall by the wayside as soon as the plethora of boxes arrives on the Stewart truck. Going to the factory and seeing the pallet of boxes that comes with the kit was helpful to mentally gauge the size of the area needed. ...

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