So last post saw the engine going in. Once the engine was in I tackled the cooling system. Header tank from AK was fixed to the chassis - simple case of drilling and taping the chassis. I also installed the rad following AK's build manual. I purchased some rubber mountings from Rimmerbros - same ones as Tommy recommended for the bottom rad mounts. Even with these on I found I had a 1/4 inch gap at the top so I bought some additional mounts from Rimmerbros to plug the gap. Part number for these was 500447.
With rad and header tank in place I then connected all the hoses. I found that a few of the hoses didn't fit very well on the rad - so I bought a couple of samco reducers from merlin motorsport. In the end I replaced all the coolant hoses with Samco hoses which look really good. I also replaced all the jubilee clips with stainless steel Mikalor hose clamps.
I was going to install the thermostat probe that comes with the AK supplied fan - but I wasn't happy with the way you had to install this and expected it to leak. So I followed what a number of other builders have done and used an inline hose adapter with an M14 threaded hole to insert a temp sender.
