looking good Eric you must be getting real close to starting that Big Block up..Break ins are scary stuff I;am crossing my fingers and hoping for the best bud,,keep us informed

It's such an ambitious project, and we are all rooting for you!

Engine and compartment looks great!

Thanks for the compliments.

Clint, yes that is the intake I got from you. Looks really good where it's sitting. Thanks Again.

When it came to the fuel sender, I was under the delusion that GM used the same sender tank fitting diameter across it's vehicle lines. I was mistaken. Hence why I ended fabbing the adapter. As hind site is 20/20, getting a correct sender and adding the return line may be easier. Next time...

looks awsome Eric ,your getting closer

That's great what you did with the exhaust!

Yesterday was a frustrating day which showed no progress for the effort involved.

First was the install of what I thought was a good wiper motor from a parts car that was on the road a year before I got it. It did not work. Confirmed electrical was fine up to the motor. Removed it and tore it apart. Long story short the end bushing on the armature is seized and wont loosen up.

Next project was the exhaust leak at #8. Replaced the gasket, did not fix it. Made some 3/8 plate C shaped washers to load the flange better. That didnt work. Pull the header off. The gaskets are square opening and the header is a round. The bottom corners barely sealed and #8 had a small spot of no overlap on the bottom. I pulled the mig welder out and added material into the offending corners and ground smooth. Reinstalled with another gasket and the header sealed up perfectly.

Ultimately I will need to source round opening header flange gaskets.

Sorry no pics taken.

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 Good stuff with the exhaust.

I notice in this first picture of this thread a '68 Cutlass ... what's the story with it?

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 The 68 is a 2dr post  F85. Other than that I never paid attention to it. 

Eric, for what it's worth, after being disappointed with pre made gaskets, and how they did not seem to match, fit and seal to the port/header, I made up my own matching gaskets for my 496. I used Garlock Graph-Loc material. Its a 1/8" thick sheet, flexible stainless foil sandwiched in between two sheets of Graphite. 

Product,

https://www.garlock.com/en/products/graph-lock-3125ss-flexible-graphite-gasketing

I made a pattern/template, the sheet can be cut with a utility knife. The bolt holes can be punched out with a hole punch backed with a piece of wood. Made 8 individual small gaskets. Installed once and they never leaked, and the bolts never loosened. On each gasket I punched one hole blind, one slotted so the gasket could be slipped in, a bolt passed through the blind hole, then the gasket could pivot down onto the second bolt. 

Imop, owing to all the different port/header combinations, you could not buy a better sealing gasket than making them yourself to fit exactly from this material.

I can send you enough to do your own nc.

Cheers, Mark

 

Thanks to 40 years of mice living in the roof of the car the windshield header was soft. It too need to rebuilt. Another trip to see Cheviac and retrieve the rest of the roof to extract the bracing to rebuild the upper windshield opening.

Wow!

I was just thinking about your 2+2 the other day.

Ambitious job, but it's gotta be done. 

From the years of sitting the door sills had it pretty tough. I sand blasted the surface, put down a few heavy coats of epoxy primer followed with some single stage paint.