I have planned on doing the offset 3-link, watts on my '66 Malibu, but this makes so much sense it's crazy. I've seen something similar to the link parts listed in the Speedway catalog, but never the two way fitting at the rear axle. Sooo, where does one get this stuff?

All of that stuff came from Ron Sutton. He calculated offset of links, heights of both the accel and decel links, etc. I ordered it from him. There is similar stuff in other racing retailers parts books, but the suspension design service and racing expertise has me giving my money to Ron.

While the chassis stuff is coming along, we have also been getting the motor ready for assembly. After Jim made the motor plate, I took it to Ed to get my water and oil lines together.

The water pump I am using takes an o-ring and snap ring for the lines to the block.

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From each side of the water pump water goes to the side of the block. Water also enters the block from the front just like a normal small block. My motor also has spark plug cooling so there are 3 ports on each head.

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After the water lines were complete, we loaded up the motor and mocked it up in the car to get the layout of the oil lines. Because we moved the oil pump to the right side, we will need to run the lines around the front of the motor.

Check out how much material has been removed from the back of the block. This was the way a lightened block comes from Brodix.

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Not much room to work with for the 2 oil lines that need to pass to the right side. They will run behind the rack and below the ballancer.

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The scavenge line running fom the lifter valley was tricky. Ed machined a spot in the block for the line to pass through.

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and to the pump

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One of 3 scavenge lines from the pan.

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The motor made a trip to Brown & Miller for the other 2 lines.

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The other line that you see in the above picture going into the pan is for the piston oilers.

Looks great Payton! Puts Dave's motor to shame.

Easy Matt. Hasn't that poor kid gone through enough already :confused18:

No. Not unless the guys at Cortex measure his subframe and find it was built with a couple extra inches of wheelbase.