And here’s the big block bolted down into its new home. We had to do some “massaging” of the firewall to get clearance for the valve covers and we also ended up cutting the center section of the radiator support bracket as well to make it easier since we put it in with the trans mated to it. But it will obviously get welded back up once it’s done.
We got the starter, fuel pump, and distributor put in along with the plugs and plug wires ran which I didn’t get a picture of due to an issue with the exhaust manifolds. We didn’t get the headers delivered before I had to leave so we were going to just use stock manifolds to get it fired up but the problem was clearance. So we flipped them upside down but then couldn’t get the plug wires boots on some of the plugs. So we were at a standstill.