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so moving along with the build,,

first off , I managed to remove the old brake master cylinder and booster , and I redid the front portion of the brake lines:





I also managed to finish the intercooler mounting brackets :



and this is how it looks on the car , I have the main one on the bottom , and a smaller one on the top:





all I have to do to finish them is have them powder coated and bolt them in place.
as to what is needed to finish the intercooler system is to fab the charge pipes ( two elbows), weld the BOV valve flange , fab a heat shield for the intercooler itself , and install the fittings and run the water lines.

moving along , I also got the new fuel rails in for the intake manifold and I installed it along with swapping most of the sensors.

so after I got done with that I decided to drop the engine in , which went smoothly thankfully. the engine with the fbody pan has pretty good clearance with the k member all around. I did notice however that the engine sits about an inch farther forward than when it was sitting on the AJE k member and 4.6 motor mounts ( I'm running an AFCO k member and mounts now).









so now that the engine was in , it was time to tackle the tranny, which brought up another issue . the plan is to use a 4L80 trans instead of the th400 I had before , and when I stabbed it in ( along with bolting the headers in ) if found out that the engine does not have enough tilt on it and both the headers and back of the trans were hitting the floorboard . it was so bad that I had to manually push the front of the engine up just to be able to get the tranny to mate to it. so after a few minutes scratching my head I decided to tilt the whole K member back by using shims of varying thicknesses on different mounting holes:



so after that the tranny ( and hooker headers ) fit a lot better , so it was time to slap in the circle D converter in place and shove the tranny in for the last time . I also had to extend one of the tranny cooler lines to make it fit :





all that is left now is to weld the tranny cross member in place and run the wires to the tranny and install a trans blanket and call it done

I also decided to measure how much clearance I'm going to have between the engine and radiator and I got 16" from the face of the balancer tot he bottom of the core support !! which means I can pull the radiator a bit back , as well as run a full size ( most likely an SN95) electric fan instead of the two puller/pusher fans .

so after finishing all that I need to:
- weld trans xmember in place
- adjust the headers to clear the trans and shift linkage, as well as weld ball collectors on them and O2 bungs.
- start fabbing the exhaust
- run the intercooler lines
- fab intercooler heat shield
- weld up charge pipes and BOV flange
- make a new drive shaft  


should keep me busy for a few days