The little window-edge things came in today. Got my roll of sound deadening stuff yesterday from ebay (for interior firewall and floorboard, and inside doors)

I'm going to spend a decent portion of Sunday working on the car.

My goal is to have the firewall covered in sound deadener, the firewall pad and underdash insulation in place, and the heater box assembled and installed.

We'll see how much of that gets done!

Carry on - love your project! First project I always check on.

So I made an order with summit last weeek for my griffin aluminum radiator, which I now see I'm going to have to polish the top of it! also ordered some AN fittings and hose and fuel filter to fab up something fancy from the fuel pump to the carb.

I was all set to be in the garage for the weekend, but saturday turned into running errands and spending time with my 10 yr old son. Sunday I slept in, till 10:30!! yes, that's right, I woke up at 10:30!! It was awesome! Took a while to get going.. Then wouldn't you know it, the man-vision shows were on spike/speed/etc and then the race, and then we went to lunch, got home, had a small honey-do list to do, then I forced myself into the garage to find the stupid a/c drain line clogged and backing up to the garage. Had to deal with and correct that, and then got some gumption to do something.. I cleaned up the car parts around and on my car and evaluated stuff. I had a hair up my rump to work on my grill. I noticed my left headlight bezel stainless trim had a bend in it! UGH!! So I figured out and painstakenly removed it and it was an edge bend, so I was able to carefully bend it back with pliers. I also noticed the bezel has a tiny chunk of plastic missing at that bend, so I went to the store and got some JB weld, I mixed up a little and smoothed it on that missing part. should be cured by now, so I can sand it tonight when I get home. I also sanded the satellite-style paint off the outer perimter of the grille so I can paint that this week.

I'm all over the dang place, but little by little!

If the car is further along at the end of the day then when the day started then you have made progress!

Keep up the good work! Some time to relax is just as valuable as time to thrash..

I picked up this nifty street rod/custom radiator hose kit from speedway motors, so I can use the pipe and hose combo to match up to my griffin aluminum radiator. Not to mention I intend on having my painter paint the tubes for me, still undecided if I want some subtle graphics, or just shiny black paint.

And look what I did (posted a thread in general about this Friday). Putting the heater box back together, getting the new core to fit right, the tube fought back! Gonna solder it tonight I think. Easy fix apparently.

So I had to leave work early today to pick up my 13 yr old son because he was sick at school, so I took that opportunity to get out in the garage.. I put some hush mat on the firewall and put up the firewall pads..

PAss side pad in place... Those little plastic nails are tricky...

Driver's side, took me some trial and error to get it right, not going to fill in the center gap between the two hush mats till I get my 4 speed pedals and hydraulic clutch setup done, not sure what goes where..

Left side pad in place, I messed up two nails, and had no extras, so I had to use one of the generic fasteners that comes with the kit, which I used on the lower one, since it probably won't be much visible under the hood..

The Hush Mat wasn't bad to deal with, easily cut, etc. Worked well with the little roller they include with the kit.

Tomorrow a friend of mine is going to fix my heater core, so I'll get that back together tomorrow night and hopefully installed in the car.

Picked up my repaired heater core today finally!

A customer of mine from work (chevy dealer service writer is my profession) has a plumbing shop and he fixed it for me!

I'm going to pressure test it and if we're good, then it's going back in!

Did you decide on a design for the air cleaner lid yet?

I'm really curious to see it espicially after seeing the cool work on the valve covers!

No, we haven't nailed it down yet. Here's the list of suggestions:

1. road runner be chased by wile e. coyote on an acme rocket
2. road runner with flames for a trail
3. a realistic "Roadrunner" logo painted towards the front of the lid. Then put another bigger Roadrunner on there with a giant claw grabbing at the logo...with flames getting heavier going back towards the back of the lid
4. Maybe have the coyote hiding behind an acme box pushing the plunger on a bomb and integrate the real fire into the explosion
5. Have a wild-eyed Wile E. hanging on to the front edge while being blown back over the front of the lid! You've already got the roadrunner on the valvecovers. (Tie design in with the valve covers)
6. Birds head (like '71 RR grille emblem), complete fire for fill in, with the outline and facial details in a lighter tone fire, so you have to look 3 times before you make out the full detail

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Did you decide on a design for the air cleaner lid yet?

I'm really curious to see it espicially after seeing the cool work on the valve covers!

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Look at what I found from using google! I emailed it to my painter to see if he can recreate it, maybe add some fire flavor to it.

Or this one!!!! (I like this better!)

So I made zero progress this weekend. I worked Saturday and left work at 5:00 not feeling well, and ended up staying in bed, sick as a dog, most of Sunday, and missed work Monday because of being sick too. Feeling 50% better, enough to work today (tuesday). I'll get to spend some time in the garage tonight, finishing the reassembly on my heater box (I filled the repaired core with water the other day, to check for leaks, so far so good).

So I left work early from not feeling good, and sitting on the couch was boring, so I decided to go into the garage and put the box back together. Got the heater core re-installed and the back panel back on and all secure

Heater box goes in tomorrow!! Let's see if I can get anything else done too! I've got some time to spend on it this weekend fortunately!

In the middle of running errands and attending my girlfriend's daughter's piano recital, I got to spend some quality time in the man cave today!

Here's the under-dash insulation/jute padding glued up in place.