[99 to Life]

7-5 Got top coat on half of frame, should have it all done by monday. Got intake on, adjusted lifters, got it on start stand. waiting on replacement water pump to show up, but I have one I'm gonna toss on there and try and get this fired up monday, hopefully. gonna prime it, check cylinder compression and if those check out I'll fire it up. There are sooo many open ports on this intake so I gotta block them off.

Since I'm running the vortec block as well as heads, they don't have a bypass in the block where the water pump mount. So I'll run a temporary bypass on startstand, but when its hooked up in truck I'll have a heater, so that will suffice as a bypass. The whole reason water needs bypassed is so hot pockets don't form in the heads. a standard WP favors one head over the other on circulation.