Wow. I feel a bit honored to have elicited a response that resembles an actual progress update with multiple photographs.... That's pretty monumental stuff in a thread such as BMF.
NOW, in the other spirit of the thread... That's a nice measure of commitment DG, being that tires are date coded.
That has to be one of the most wicked reinforced looking clutch plates I have ever seen. What's the story there? Definitely not standard issue right?