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Finally have a little time to make an update. The text should roughly follow the pictures I’m going to post.

After looking all over the place I finally found where Marty hid the other shock mount I remember him playing with at one point. It was in the bottom of a toy bin. He hid it for later. I got it installed in my little mount and welded to the frame so both front upper shock mounts are complete.

I’ve been working on removing the passenger side floor pan. I picked up a Javelin replacement. It’s almost the same except for near the hump. I’m still working on getting it cut out nicely so I can begin the process of getting the floor installed around the cage.

After Scott(my machinist) cut the upper edge of the intake to clear the valve cover rails I brought it home and tried it. It was much closer but now the china walls at each end of the block were hitting the intake first. So I took a ride back over there and he cut it while we bullshitted for a few minutes. He had .070 cut off the walls in about 5 minutes. Unfortunately it needs to be cut on the intake mounting pads so I brought it back to him today. I brought a NOS factory intake gasket to measure the thickness(.015) and he’s going to cut another .010 on both sides. Hopefully then it’ll sit nice and I can leave the intake on while I figure out all the pulleys and mounts in the winter.

I started messing with mounting the 70 challenger BB radiator I had laying around. After some trial and error I came up with these little mounts that will hold the radiator, support the hood/hood pins, and can eventually also support the fiberglass fenders. I’m not a fabricator in any way, shape, or form. So feel free to make fun of them.

I measured for the pushrods today. On the valvestem on the left I ended up at 7.900. So I placed an order today from Competition Products for a set of valve covers. That wasn’t without its setbacks. I guess I haven’t turned the engine over since I bolted on the pan. And I hit a spot in the pan and it wouldn’t turn. Taking it apart I found a stud holding the Aviad pan windage tray was hitting the connecting rods. After first trying to trim it down to the nut. I ended up cutting off the whole stupid thing. I found a NOS oil pan gasket set in my basement so I used those 50 year old cork gaskets since I destroyed the first set removing the pan.

I also got around to finally making the small -12 feed line for the external oil feed to the block. And I had a local shop make a small -6 hose for the valley oil line. It’s a little too long but it’s not in the way of anything so it’ll ride.

Marty wanted to sit in the car and help work on it over the last couple of days.

Thanks for reading.