Small update from this week, but a lot of work to get here...
Eric has almost finished the work on the trans tunnel (and probably has by now). He raised up the tunnel about 1.5" in total. The original cuts were only to the area in front of the 'hat channel'. Unfortunately that support also had to be cut and raised, so he had to do the extra work there. That's the shiny area further back.
The original shifter hole piece is going to be used to have a removable cover for the shifter so that I can service it as needed. It will screw on around the hole which you see above.
More of the firewall hole filling. It's mostly done.
And a shot of the engine, without the PS pump which is being exchanged with Wegner at the moment... That door behind it is from Eric's cool '50 Ford project that he's working on.
I spent the week making phone calls all over the place. Some of the issues I've had to resolve:
- Wrong PS pump, needed a low-volume pump to match the Ford rack
- Wrong MC brackets, still working with DSE on that
- The Edelbrock Victor Jr. fuel rail kit requires LS1 height injectors. Mine are L92's, which are an inch short. Ordered 1" tall adapters to fix.
- Decided to run a PS fluid cooler, ordered one from Jegs.
I've also been working on decisions involving wiring, headlights (still undecided), fuel pump shutoff (ordered), battery cable routing (ordered), wheels/tires (undecided), fuel and oil and PS line decisions, down-bar mounts from the firewall to the subframe (ordered), and I'm sure a few more that I've forgotten by now but have parts on the way for.
Now that we're getting over a few hurdles, this week should have some good progress.
