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I'm back! I took few months of the build off to help my parents with some work on their property. Now that I'm back I need to update a few things from the break.

I left off with the steering system. In early January I drilled the front panel and painted it hammertone grey to match the F-panels, and riveted the panel on.

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Back in January, my engine and transmission arrived. The top questions I get related to the build are 1) ...

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Today, again I was working on the engine.
Short block almost done, just missing a cam, should get it next week.
Pictures from today:
pistons rings gaps checked
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All piston rings installed
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All pistons installed, i was really happy to see that there re no clearance issues between connecting rods and the block
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Since my last post I finished the horn on my steering wheel, so now I can say that my dash is complete done and I'm happy that I will have the horn on the steering wheel, not on the dash. To do that I had to buy NRG spacer, to have more room for the horn wires.
Here are pictures:
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Now, to the more interesting parts:)
Yesterday I picked up my 302 engine block and balanced 331 ...

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With a solid Por-15 base coat, we followed up with two layers of Wimbledon White top coat, and finished with a coat of clear finish. We allowed the chassis to cure for two days in the beautiful California sun, and began parts installation on April 1, 2012.





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I've put about 5 minutes of run time on the engine now. It was cut short due to a minor coolant leak in the rear of the intake and for some reason the rad fans didn't activate at temp. Well, you have to install the relays but in my defense the relay housing look very much like the relays so I thought they were there (wired some time ago). Didn't work after adding relays. I had other wiring issues but straightened it all out. So I finally got to do a sustained run. Have a look: [url]http://youtu.be/tY8BKe7ko1Y[/url] ...