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I just had mine ceramic coated. Good to 1300 degree F. No high temp paints lasted long for me.

I used the cheapo 1 ton harbor freight model & was able to pull the engine out from the front. I needed to take the front bumper off and valance/grill. A load-leveler really helps too

Even the wife jumped up and down a little. The key giveaway was seeing orange paint flakes in the starter hole, the clutch is a centerforce.

Clucking sound solved! One of the clutch slave cylinder mounting bolts were too long and rubbed against only part of the clutch causing the intermittent clunking. The bolts were in the car when I bought it and did not rub on the OEM clutch so I'm not sure if these bolts belong here or were incorrectly installed by the previous owner.

My dimmer switch (I called it the HI/LO Beam Select) is in the lower right of my schematic. As for the deployment difficulty, I'm not sure which would be easier. Assuming the new plug-in harness construction is the same difficulty for either version, that part is a tie. Then for the traditional approach you have to run a new power wire and fuse from the battery, while for what I did you have to make a couple changes to the headlight switch instead. All things considered, I think the traditional approach is a little easier, but I think the benefits to what I did were worth the small extra amount of work. I'll try to draw up another schematic of my modified 2-relay version that shows more clearly how to construct a harness.

Thanks man. I've wanted one since my dad bought one new in 1971- first car I ever cared about. With this, my dream garage is only missing one car- an Elise. Someday.....