well, after a long waiting process by myself, the motor is finally done at the machine shop...over 3 months later - anyhow, hopefully getting the block painted later this week with assembly over the weekend - not sure if i'll have time to get it back in the car due to other plans, but the weekend after is completely open, so we'll see.

accomplished this weekend...not much, got rocker shafts cleaned-up and protected, double-checked all of my stuff to make sure i don't have any last-minute trips to the parts store, got fitting for mechanical temp gauge to mount in WP housing, ordered a couple wix filters and a case of VR1 10-30