Tim,
Thanks for your response. Yes, I have recorded that information in your records. I have also been in contact with Andy Graham and have given him some documents (such as the scan of the original invoice from the factory). I will send this to you as well.
The restoration is coming along fantastically. As I'm exiting high school on my way to college I have been busy with standardized testing, applications for financial aid, and so on over the previous few weeks and despite my desires have not found time to post an update to this thread, but here's the short version:
My Elan returned to the road on 4/22/2019 and since then I have put almost 600 miles on it with no major difficulties. The small difficulties have included undesirable levels of water intrusion around the doors (which I made a post about already), a major oil leak due to a compromised gasket where the front cover mates with the sump, a moderate oil leak due to me being an idiot and stripping out the threads for one sump bolt on the rear main seal carrier (rope seals, hooray!), a screw that inexplicably fell out of the generator casing and was making a racket as it rattled around and occasionally kissed the generator rotor (thought it was the water pump bearing at first which darkened my mood severely), and a lack of tension on the water pump/generator belt leaving me stranded at a girl's house needing a jump start
However, all of these problems were presented and rectified within the first two weeks after I got it back on the road. In the last three weeks I have had no problems whatsoever with the possible exception of crap valve guides making their presence known with the well-known blue smoke on acceleration and startup. I didn't have time to rebuild my other engine before my self-imposed deadline for getting the Elan back on the road due to getting frozen out of my garage for half of January and all of February. So the old road engine went straight back whence it came and I am planning to start assembly of the other engine in about a week.
I will try to document the various work that I did on the car over the winter and spring in the next few weeks in detail here but I can't promise anything. I have logged all of the work done, parts replaced, etc, in my notebook, but I'd like to document procedures and such here.
It sure makes one heck of a car to park next to the WRX's, Camaro's, Golf GTI's, Mustang's, etc., that my "go-fast" friends drive to school though! A friend and I stayed late the other night and we decided to take a picture of my car and his (an '06 Pontiac Solstice) before we went to go get dinner. Yes, it's a good sized parking lot and no, we weren't running parking lot autocrosses!