The car is now registered and legal – woo hoo!
Everything went very smoothly. I took my paperwork to the WSP VIN Inspection location, talked to the officer there about where everything came from, helped her find the VIN numbvers for the engine and frame, then she went in the office and came back maybe 45 minutes later with a couple of forms for me to sign. Then it was off to the DOL to register the car. Paid the taxes, and walked out with a license plate. It was much less painful than I expected, and took me a couple of hours in total. Then, unfortunately, I had to get to work, so I took the Interstate back, which was about as dull as any drive can be in this car, which is to say, still better than driving a Camry anywhere.
Interesting handling note on the car: the track is wider in the back than the front, which means it does tend to wander around on well-worn, rutted roads.
Before the inspection, I took care of some of the issues I noted in my shakedown run. I fitted new gearbox mountings, tightened the banjo bolt on the turbo oil feed and fitted the mesh to the holes in the nose to make it look more finished.
The mesh parts were a pain to fit. They need to be bent slightly to fit the contours of the nose, and they are unevenly formed, so they need a bit of re-forming to ensure that both big “nostrils” have the mesh at about the same height etc. I fitted the two small mesh covers using epoxy putty, which was super easy, but fairly brittle, so it can’t be used in places where there’s a lot of flex – like the top of the bonnet. For the bjg mesh covers, I fiberglassed them in. First time I’ve used Fiberglass in 20 years, and boy does that stuff stink.
The gearbox mounts were hard to find, but the ones I got (http://www.vibrationmounts.com/Store.asp?Page=Products1.htm, Part#V11Z02MMMKA040H) are a bit smaller and much stiffer than the Westfield part. I had to cut down the studs to make them fit, though. No more knocking in the tunnel, at least so far.
Another small thing I found was that the exhaust downpipe was hitting the lower frame member near the exhaust hole in the body, so I had to fix that by loosening, shifting, and re-torquing the downpipe nuts.
But there you go, all done. At least for now. There will always be things to do 
