Progress is being made. Yesterday I sent off the up-pipe and the downpipe to
HeaderShield to have them wrapped. Today I showed up at Vic's and saw that he had installed the firewall shield that we had been discussing. We will probably take the intake off and go all the way across as much as we can with it.
I also pulled the drive's side seat to start mocking up the shifter. What you don't see is that under the carpet I had removed the shifter hump that was installed 20 years ago to make room for the Richmond 6 speed shifter. With that hump gone (it was bolted in) the console that I plan to use actually sort of fits. I ordered a partial left side front floor patch panel that includes part of the transmission tunnel. We are going to use that to close off the hole and have the shape of the floor be how it was with an auto trans. Then the 70 Chevelle console that I got should fit a lot better.
In order to do the power steering plumbing, this little nipple for the fluid return had to be cut off because it was pointing right at the steering box.
The hole is quite small, so we are going to install a 1/8" NPT to AN-6 fitting there.
Andrew