Cooling is done also. After looking at other posts and cooling diagrams, it seemed to me that putting the expansion tank on the scuttle like most people do would require excessively long lines.
I made a bracket that mounts the tank forward, just toward the rear of the nose.
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coolant tank mounted.jpg
Top hose tees to the rad overflow and the thermostat bypass. Lower hose tees into the large lower radiator return that goes into the engine at the rear (as it sits in the car) close to the output shaft.
There is a small hose that also enters the engine at the output shaft. I made some hardline to pipe this carefully around the prop adapter to exit at the top, just forward of the shifter arm. This is connected to the cold start manifold (the other end of which is connected just as standard from a small pipe that exits the top of the block before the thermostat.
Top hose from thermostat goes to top of rad. Difficult to see is that there is a small hose from the bottom of the engine which is the hot water exit from the water-to-oil cooler (std on bike), which is teed into this top line so that it it cooled before returning. I've seen that many people just tee it in to the bottom hose and have no problem.
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cooling 1.jpg
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cooling 2.jpg
This is what it looks like with the nose finally mounted (hopefully for the final time).
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engine bay with cooling..jpg
Scuttle is mounted, though I think I need to fiddle with it some more for the hood to line up the way I want.
Next steps are hood fitting, final interior panels, finish up brakes, fit reverse gear (should be done soon)
I think I'm in the home stretch!
Biggest issue left will be to do enough of a windshield to keep DMV happy.