I finally found a place that could cut splines. Mendham Engineering in Rocklea did the job for $350. I thought that price was a ripoff at the time, but as I had been asking around for over 3 months for this, I thought it was better than sitting on my hands for another 3 months. They have done a good job, although a good example of over-engineering. The thing weighs a ton! At least I know it won't break, it's probably the strongest piece of steel in the whole car. As you'd expect, just 4 weeks after paying for this, someone showed up who could do the job for $60. Typical!

We welded a bracket to adjust the height and tilt of the Corolla steering column. It's a bit of hack, but will do the job until we can think of something better. The main thing is that the column is mounted using the original shear brackets that came with the half cut.

Plan B. The problems associated with using the original half-cut steering column were mounting, so I put out the request for a KE30 Corolla column, which is the recommended part for this Westfield. Bruce Window from Ferny Hills had the required part for sale, along with the Westfield mods, so I snapped that up. Thanks Bruce. This photo shows the Westfield supplied steering shaft mating to the Corolla column using the flexible link. It all fits perfectly.

One of the main reasons we wanted to use the half-cut column was that we thought the wiring loom would plug straight into it. When we found out this was not so, the only reason for keeping it was the new-ish controls, but Ryan worked out that we could transplant the new control columns and stalks onto the KE30 column. So, the decision was made to use the older KE30 column. Here is a shot of the pedal box with the column in place.