Last week, Nathan and I testfit the cockpit and the shifter linkage workaround I came up with a while back did not work. It was more than an inch off. So I have decided that I do need to replace the selector arm, but I cannot get it loose.
Here are some pics we took along the way. You can see in the first one that the exhaust headers seem to be okay, clearing the cockpit footbox by an inch or so. In the second one, you can see a wider view of what the car will look like with the cockpit in place.
I think I am going to have to cut the nut off. It is probably okay, in that I don't have to re-use everything in there, but it is extremely tight where that frozen nut is. My regular cut-off wheel on my angle grinder is too big so I may pick up a cheap dremel type rotary tool to cut the nut. The really depressing thing is that even when I do get the new arm in place, the shifter linkage may still be too close to the tub that it will require more re-work. Ugggh!
