Photos!
Here is what I've been spending most of my time on lately. 3-4 Head tin (driver's side) on the left, rear tin on the right.
I need to get both top surfaces close to even with no screws on top so my heat shield will lie flat and seal. The piece on the right needed a 1/4" step in it at the ends to put the screw tab on the bottom. That means that I screw them together from underneath (the nut is captive to the head tin), but that's no big deal. Making that step in such a short span is a MAJOR PITA when you don't have proper dies and a press. Getting two precise bends like that with a hammer and improvised die (1/4" steel bar stock) is really hard.
There's a slight bulge towards the center of the engine to clear the exhaust pipe flange and the rear lower tin piece below the head tin is not yet in place. All this is to fit the CMC-Style, horse-shoe shaped, rear heat shield that slides up and onto the top of the tins from the rear, then screws into the bottom of the body frame member making a seal. Sounds complicated, but it slides in pretty easily and allows for engine movement while staying sealed.
Below is a shot of the modified breast plate that still needs a few tweeks to make it pretty, but it's close and just drops right into place. It had been pounded out of round to fit the rear tin on top, which is wrong. The rear tin goes underneath so I'm re-shaping it back to more like original to fit the rear tin better - Almost there.
That silver bulge left center is clearance for the oil pump external fittings. Berg offers a "special" 45º cover and fitting for T-2 that might have cleared better, but I didn't know about that until years after full-flowing it. I can't easily remove the exhaust headers (they're rusted together) so I took this route instead, which works fine with the pulley removed. So I need to finish up the passenger side of the rear tin, make a few adjustments to everything to get them to match up and not hit the pulley and then sand blast, re-paint and assemble everything in the correct order so they'll all go together, happily. Gotta love German engineering. 🙄
It's a good thing I'm not in a hurry......