There was NO WAY the front would sit all the way down. The "fit" was... Well there was none. It doesn't fit.
I ground the posts and holes the way I did on the rear but I'm not sure it helped. What may be the real problem is that the tabs of the lower part of the wind shield sit up above the level of the metal frame behind the firewall. I carefully ground the area down. I also ended up having to grind some of that metal frame. There was simply no way to front body could go down.
Some people have noted that the instructions are incorrect in this area regarding the way the dashboard fits to that metal cross frame. I knew about that. There's a few other ways to cause too much height there too such as incomplete seating of the engine compartment. Mine is fine, everything is very snug and flush. But this area is none the less about 2mm total off.
It's worth noting that I followed the advice of others and removed the window frame from the windshield during this process. It gets broken easily.
Next problem...
With the front down as far as possible it might just be possible to get it the rest of the way by tightening the two screws that hold this area. However, there's one small problem. The supplied screws are literally physically too short to reach through to the body, even with the front body all the way down.
Amazing.
I tried for a while to locate other screws that would work, but this was not easy. Nothing I had on hand was right, and no other screws left from the DB5 would fit. Nothing left over from the Cobra worked either. Buying some proved difficult too. It's hard to get all the specs to line up.
The best match was one of the screws left from the DB5 that had the same diameter and thread size, and was perfectly 1 or 2 mm longer. But the head had a flange so it would not fit down into the recess as needed. I removed the flange with the watchmaker's lathe and the screws were perfect. I think they were the 'J' screws if memory serves. As an aside, the very last magazine that arrived for the second to last installed of this model included a chart with the sizes of all the screws. It is absolutely baffling why this was not provided at the beginning.
Anyway, the last steps were connecting routing the wiring to its final position, putting the rear axle and wheels on, the bottom panel, and a few final details like the windshield wipers.
One big, heavy DB5 model!
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