Alternator, Parking Brake and other random items

It's been oppressively hot outside lately, and with no air conditioning (and no breeze) in the garage it's even hotter in there.  I've been working a little each day, but mostly early in the morning or late in the evening after it's cooled off a bit.  My camera is on vacation with the rest of my family, so there won't be any pictures with this post.

The alternator, pulleys, belts and ignition are now installed on the front of the engine.  There were no instructions for any of this, so I spent a lot of time on various forums reading posts and looking at pictures.  After a phone call to Mike Forte he did send me instructions for attaching the alternator, so that helped a lot too.

The EFI did not come with a fuel pressure regulator and gauge.  Mike is sending me those parts, so while I wait for them there is no further progress on the fuel lines and I moved on to other items.  I completed the installation of the accelerator cable to the throttle body.  I also got it rivoted into place along the side of the driver's side foot box.  The engine bay is really starting to fill up.

We're modifying the radiator setup a bit based on feedback from other builds.  The radiator shroud aluminum arrived on Friday, so I went ahead and started the engine cooling system.  In case you're wondering, the shround holds the fan and attaches directly behind the radiator.  The shroud separates the fan a bit from the radiator and creates a larger enclosed space behind the radiator to improve it's performance.  After a bit of tracing, cutting, smoothing, drilling, bolting and siliconing the fan is now attached to the shroud.  Parts are still on their way.  Once they arrive I can install the radiator/shroud assembly to the chassis and plumb the system.  It actually doesn't sound that hard to do, and should really look great on the car.  Hopefully when I get a camera, I'll post pictures of a completed cooling system.

I spend late last night and this morning installing the parking brake.  The handle is secured into place, and looks really cool.  Again, a picture here would really help.  The stock location, on the passenger side of the transmission tunnel, is too difficult to reach from the driver's seat.  Based on pictures from other posts, I'm installing it on the top of the transmission tunnel.  Of course this required a bit of modification, but that's half the fun.  I had to create a custom steel brake cable bracket because of the new location.  I was originally going to bolt the bracket into place, but I can't get the drill in the tight space around the bracket.  Mike, my new advisor who just happens to be an aircraft mechanic and building a Factory Five Mk2 himself, is coming over soon to weld the driveshaft loop into place so we'll just weld the parking brake bracket while he's here.