Just a minor update. Did a little clean up work and painted the alternator bracket, the alternator (damn, there's a ton of little holes to mask off...and yes, I know I could have just taken it apart), and painted the airfilter lid. All of them got a couple of coats of aluminum pigmented paint. I think it turned out really nice.

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Did I ever mention that I hate chrome or most anything that shines? Except for stainless.

I am also fully aware of how much crap I have piled on the cowl, the fenders, my tool box, my work bench....

It looks good. Who's paint did you use??

It's just some DupliColor Engine Enamel with Ceramic, Cast Aluminum color from a rattle can. It was really hard to work with. Wanted to make runs with the smallest ammount sprayed. It was sort of cold in the garage though...

You know how sometimes, if you stare at a problem long enough a simple solution will jump out at you? Well, I solved my heater hose delema and fixed a routing problem with my fuel system at the same time. Bad news is I need more parts now. A fuel log to run a single hose from my FPR to the carb, and fittings to run a hose to the nitrous selenoid. I was going to build a shield, but this seems to be working.

All I had to do was slightly relocate and angle my fuel pressure regulator (FPR) to allow one of the heater hose to take it's natural path to the waterpump. This also allowed me to no longer have one of the heater hoses in contact with the return line. As you can see, there's now at least 1" between any hose, structure or other hoses.

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I drilled two holes big enough for a zip tie in the inner fender and used an old wire loom clamp as a spacer.

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And routed the heater hose through the stock clamp on the fender.

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Reinstalled fuel pump, readied the the gas tank to be reinstalled.

Went to the hardware store and got nuts and washers for engine mount through-bolts.

Also got some wire terminals....

Car did a neat trick today too. IT TURNED OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME. Of course, no start since the fuel system isn't finished and the igniton isn't wired.

Everything sounded good, building compression, no odd sounds. No power to my interior lights or gauges which was odd. I will have to figure that out. Dying to see if it's building oil pressure while cranking.

Also made myself a promise, no pictures of anything until it's running!

Headers
 

Hey man, what headers did you use. I'm doing your same setup in an '81 Camaro. I'm trying to choose headers with minimal issues.

why didnt you paint the oil pump and all the other stuff on the front of the motor that looks old??

Edelbrock headers, hard to find them anymore. There are better out there now.

They are aluminum and just need to be cleaned better...might paint them in the future, but wasn't a huge concern at the time.

Update
 

Just want to let everyone know, this project has NOT been given up on! I recently had weight loss surgery (every 100lbs is a 1/10TH!) and have been recovering from that. Also needed help on the electrical. Had it cranking, wired the fuel pump relay, went to test and and....no power at all to the car all of the sudden.

Had my father come down last weekend and we went through all of the under-hood wiring. The OE stuff, stuff others hacked on, and stuff we spliced into the hacked on OE stuff. Found a few minor shorts, fixed some severed wires, removed superfluous (yes, I had to spell check that word) wiring and still....it would sometimes crank, then sometimes have no power, yet all the fuses and breakers were fine. We did have a mystery 50ohm resistance in the system somewhere....

I finally noticed that there appeared to be rubber trapped between the main ground wire lug and the battery terminal. Took that off and sure enough, there was only about 10% of the lug making contact with the battery. After carefully trimming away the rubber from the cheaply made lug, it was reinstalled, the car cranks, power was restored and the mystery resistance went away!

Finally, we rewired the fuel pump relay, put gas in the tank and turned the key. No fuel pump sound, no fuel pressure! Chased the voltage from the battery to the relay to the pump and 12v went all the way. Had a good ground too. Dead pump...and after all the work we put into it. Called it quits and ordered the a new pump.

I pulled the OE steering wheel (will be in the for sale section soon, 1970 RS steering wheel!) to prep for the Grant wheel I'm replacing it with and to allow me to fit better under the dash to replace the poorly installed wiring I did 12 years ago before I knew what I was doing!

Sorry, no photos from the wiring work, I was too busy and in a hurry and LeMans was on and something, something, something. I will go take some pictures of the current state and how I feel about crappy Mallory pumps tonight.

All is well, fire up in 30 days or less (Dr. has told me to take it easy...)