its good to see you making more progress daty. when you get the oil filter assembled can you post a pic for reference.

my updates...

finally got the trans in and the hump is attached. Im waiting for another hose from keisler before I can fill with oil and bleed the line. got my pistol grip handle back with the letters TKO stamped in. my dana rear end should be here in a few days I had ordered from Dr. Diff. then I can finish my brake lines.
taking my aluminum radiator I ordered from don @ FBO to the shop to get the brackets stitched welded. still need to prefit my headers.

Daty,

Correct website address:

http://www.cmfilters.com/index.cfm

-Michael

Already talked with Doug and got it ordered. I'll fit it all up and let him know how it turned out. The car is coming together quickly now, but I doubt I'll make AutoRama in 4 weeks. Don't want to rush perfection.

-Daty

68440Fish
just saw your link to CM filters site.

good design on the canisters and filter kits.


*found out last night that the radiator I have was shipped from another vehicle. will have to go thur the 'Redo' process again. another iron in the pot.
sure is a good thing I made a phone call to double check it. I had an appointment with the welder to stitch on the brackets and when I went to do my layout I thought something didn't look right with the inlets in the wrong place. when I had placed the order we repeated the locations three times?
somehow it got mixed up.

the one good thing its from the good ole USA and I got a 'Yup, Dah your right, its our fault' and we will take car of it Gus!

Are you getting crimped braided hoses or the ones with the "re-useable" fittings?

I have to cut to fit.

-Daty

Daty,
The parts guy at the local Dodge dealer got a complete new "Fuel Injection" (MP Crate Engine parts) kit for me. I picked it up this morning. Hopefully, I'll get some time to install it this coming week.
I've got to start making some progress. I'm way behind where I thought I would be by now.

Sounds like you're making great progress!

Bob

The latest is if you have an A-body the steering column will need to be cut back about 4 inches. The rod by itself clears fine (a bit tight). The problem is not with the headers (surprise) but the head does not clear the column at the rear corner. I dinged the headers at the dist block and brake line and another ding at the t-bar (driver side) and the headers now clear everywhere. Progress man, progress...

-Daty

Don't know, here's the view out the steering column hole (from the interior)

-Daty

Yikes, that's tight. At least the input is visible. Can the collar be clearanced to clear?

I cut the collar back to the firewall, the shaft clears the head and the wobble joint clears the headers, but its a tight fit.

-Daty

And they said "smaller and lighter than a 5.9!"

And more powerful too!!! For even more power (and disable the 5700rpm hard limit) Ben Grasso at www.pfcenterprises.com has an ecm and a feedback system that uses wide loop O2 sensors for true control on the efi. As it is stock the crate motor has no O2 sensor feedback.

I got some stuff done so far, I found a 727 inspection plate but had to cut it square to fit around the motor, everything is buttoned up now. The plate and starter have to be in place before the headers swing into place. Last week I slept the entire weekend, didn't get a thing done on the vert...

-Daty

just saw your post and noticed you said you had to put the starter in first? on my E body, I had to install the header first then the starter, after a couple of trail fits I needed to ding my headers too. removed the power steering gear box which would not fit afterwards. went with a manaul gear box - was hammer tight up against the shock tower two hits and she was in. stubborn I was without jacking up the motor... didnt want the extra work that night, my excuse to switch.
planning on picking up my dana this week.
radiator is here and is missing the brackets.

Well, the header had to be hanging and then slide (yea right) in the starter, then finish installing the header, lots of fun and you need about 8 hands while doing this. On the driver side I didn't have to ding next to the steering box (but did since it is so close), ding 2 tubes for t-bar clearance, then ding another tube for more clearance around the distribution block (which slid back a few inches for header clearance). The passenger side was fine. Good thing is the vert is off the stands and out of the middle of the garage (room for DD's Rango), looks good on the ground.

-Daty

so R U getting closer to making your deadline?

Forgot to say........
I could have left the header hanging and did the starter @ the same time too. my thought was for future repairs without dropping the header and installing a new gasket for a possible starter change-out.

Probably going to miss AutoRama unless I put it in as a non-functional display (like that never happens). Still have plenty to do and lots to figure out yet, need to make a list so I can keep track.

DD's friend BJ calls my Cuda the world's most expensive paper towel holder....

-Daty

Any progress updates? I've been working out the cooling system and mounting Canton's remote filter system (nice piece!). I'm putting in a 27" 3 core I got from Tyson and was looking at hoses from Summitt but they require an adapter/reducer at the inlet since it is 2" around. Clair gave me some ideas and I talked with Billy at Dallas Dodge about what he did (search thru a pile of hoses until he found what worked). Right now since its not making AutoRama (2 weeks) I want to make it right rather than kludged.

-Daty