I haven't achieved much in a couple of weeks now - the prop shaft arrived, but is slightly too long to fit in without moving the gearbox forward or down (there's too much chassis in the way and too little articulation in the universal joints to allow it to clear the chassis and be fed into the gearbox) and I sort of ran out of enthusiasm to bugger about doing all that just to put something in that I'll inevitably have to take out again.
I also sourced some Jaguar bolts to attach it to the diff, which turned up grade S (roughly 8.
and consensus on the Cobra forum is that they should be grade T (roughly 12.9?) so I've ordered some direct from Jaguar this time to see what turns up.. (3/8UNF, roughly 1.5" long with about 5/8" plain shank makes them a little bit oddball)
I also got the header tank that I modified properly remanufactured by a local radiator specialist, which also came back this week.
But yeah, I've totally run out of enthusiasm to actually
do anything to the car