I opened the cooling openings (green arrows) to be able to fix some realistic mesh later on. I also closed the license plate attachments (red arrows), and I used some 1/48 airplane drop tanks to serve as headlight mirrors (blue arrows).
The trunk a disaster. There is no way you can make it fit, let alone that it could be made a working trunk! The top of the trunk needs to be raised (blue arrows) and the middle needs to be lowered (red arrows). I decided to fix it in closed position.
I wonder how Italeri designers joined the chassis and body of the model: there simply is no decive holding the parts together! I decided to scratch one myself, at least now the chassis doesn't need to 'float' in the body...
The headlights mirrors are also absent in the kit. Behind the covers there is simply nothing to see. This is not acceptable, so I scratched them from old Thunderbolt drop tanks. I removed the headlight washers and logo to replace them later on.
I did a firs dry fit and noticed that the rear wheels are standing too far to the front of the wheel arch, and the car is sitting too high. So I replaced the attachemnt pins (red to green) and lowered the suspension 1mm.
The building instructions suggest that the rear bumper should be fixed to the body before putting it on the chassis, but they also suggest to leave the front bumper off the body until completion.
The rims that I used in the dry fit photo's, were unfortunately enough not cleaned up before Italeri chromed them. So I had to clean them up and respray them. I chose aluminium instead of the exagerated chrome look, the same color as the rear spoiler.