Much appreciated. Now onto wiring the painless

Working on the dash this weekend but making some progress.
Get the center ac vents in and the lighter switch, lights switch and glove box mounted.

Nice!

Working on wiring up the remote solinoid and trunk battery. Getting all of the kinks worked out. Also have a Flaming River disconnect switch coming in. You can cant see it but i have the stealth tank wire harness on the other side of the battery thats also getting tied in. Installed the rear wire harness for the lights that will tie into the main wire harness. Ill get more pics soon. I have most of everything hooked up and was able to turn the motor over this weekend with the ignition key so updates will be coming soon!

Dash lit up and also put in a vintage air control unit in the dash. I dont have the Vintage air installed but i wanted to clean up the big empty space in the dash where the control box goes.

I agree I like the 69 Chevelle grill best of all of them and looking through the thread I saw the start of the wrap install and thought WTH? I'm amazed how good that looks! keep up the good work

Thank you!

agreed. I like the wrap. keep it coming

Was able to fire off the car today for the first after doing the wiring. It was scary I won’t lie but we’ll wotth all the blood sweat and tears. Video doesn’t do it justice but I must say it made a sweet rumble. Next will be getting the brakes dialed in along with some left over electrical like fans, lights and so on. Since I relocated the battery to the trunk I did my own version of the setup. Let me know your thoughts! Would love a star or two rating if you like it but you didn’t hear that from me ; )
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That dash really looks great all lit up:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Car looks great! The wrap will serve it's purpose well, Avery is good stuff.

Ok so I was able to get the car moving under its own power this weekend and ive come across an issue. The motor has pressure, has good fuel pressure, ive checked the float level in the carb, and it is idling funky. when i take the belt off it fires right up and runs strong. put the belt back on and its slow starting and does a really weird progressive idle sound that i cant really describe so ive put a short video below of it in the driveway. You can here it about every 3-4 seconds and last a few seconds. ive been told to check the tightness of the pulleys, ive been told to check the MSD is getting good power, ive been told the carb could be gunked up due to sitting for over a year. If it was carb related i would think it wouldnt run well even if i took off the belt but it runs good without it. i have not checked the pullys and how tight they are.... would this be a common issue? im wondering if its timing, but again if fires right up without the belts. any thoughts??

Been doing some research and it looks like I need to disconnect the one wire alternator wires and start up the engine and see if that is the issue. I may have some wiring issues with the MSD and i want to say ive wired my power wire for the msd to the alternator charging wire that goes back to the battery. This i want to say was a bad idea and now that i think about it is more then likely why im getting the slow start (alternator is powering the MSD and is not spinning right away at crank up. thus not giving the msd ignition box enough juice. then when it does start its not getting the correct amount of voltage to operator properly. Hope i didnt F anything up and i can still fix this issue.

Good luck with tracking down the culprit! The car looks great so far, glad you decided to hang on to it and follow through.

Run the msd direct to the battery posts with zero detours or interruption, that'll make it right.

What gauge wire would you run? 10?

Tried this last night... no luck. It actually wouldn't even run.. it would fire up and slow idle for about 3 seconds and die.. im going crazy trying to figure this out.

Try bypassing the MSD box. Also, substitute a known good coil.

Things happen...

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Are you in Houston?

Yes Sir.

Ok, took the car to a shop to have the carb looked at. My idle mix screws were all messed up and my floats needed adjustment. Now she runs like a champ. Also put the stainless works exhaust on so its not so loud for the neighbors but to be honest its still very very loud.

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what side of town

Currently Missouri City but soon to be moving up to Waller County / Cypress area in about 3 weeks.

I think i got her all dialed in for the most part until i can put it on a chassis dyno and fine tune it more.

Well i drove it yesterday and my oil pressure is dropping when the motor is heated up. It still has the break in oil from the builder so im thinkin of changing it out to some Driven Oil 15 w50. It started to sputter and died on my at a red light and i watched the pressure drop to low 30's psi then it died. Hopefully some thicker oil will do the trick. its HOT here in houston.