Good morning Ladies and Germs.....

Today, for your viewing pleasure.....

I give you the Covid-572: Pandhemi.

Born on 4-26-20

(Painted and all that sometime afterward whenever it was I got around to it)

Not really. I'm not too into the process of "naming everything" like that but maybe this name will stick?
Ah, who knows.

Been a fun project.

Ohhh, that's nice!

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Thank you Mark!

Have I mentioned it is stock appearing ?

(.....in this one spot, where the white plastic things go)

If I’m getting too technical let me know 😂

Congratulations to the proud father!

and I like the name, that's clever.

That’s got 500hp written all over it!!!

I put the high lift purple shaft in it, man! Gotta be good for at least 5 and a quarter

Medium Daddy says thank you very much

Thank you... I probably binge watched one too many Motor Trend on Demand shows during this
whole deal, which led to the whole naming thing.

He either has a twin or someone stole your idea in the other 572 post. LOL. It's an identical twin.

I probably overdid it with the posts here but will stop soon.

It's so slow around this place, it's kinda sad.... but it's like that all over except social media.

I think we need to put the pedal to the metal to remember how great that feels. 6 months and counting for me since the Halloween Classic at Norwalk.

Looks good. Do the pulleys all line up at this point or do you need to move the alternator out to line up with the water pump? Looks like you have the correct throttle bracket and return setup, you'll need a long throttle cable to reach up to that intake! The coil mount location looks good. What else do you need to sort out before it is ready to go into the car? Is the fuel system ready for that engine? Where will the adjuster strap for the alternator go? Over to the engine or run it the other way to the frame?

Looks good Zippy! I finally own my first Hemi too, they are not real fun to work on but definitely fun to drive.

Looks awesome Zippy! Is it going on the dyno?

Well, yeah that would help!
I'm sure not any sort of hardcore racer but I do enjoy testing and going at it once in awhile.

A year ago for me May 5th. What would really do me a whole lot of good is to do an entire day of nothing but 60 foot, adjust shocks and try to learn something about suspension, as I feel I know next to nothing at the moment.

Can't do that, so time to start changing things and make sure I confuse myself as much as possible....

Nice Rich! Really looks great!

Hey thanks. Adjuster strap will go down to the K member (Weld a small 3/8 ID tube, run a bolt through it and attach the strap). The alternator fits well but the bracket should be 1.040" thicker for it to line up, so I made a spacer to use in that location + drilled the tapped hole on the bracket out for 3/8" through bolt so I could use both "ears" on the alternator. I got the pulleys to line up within 1/32" using the motor plate as a datum line, after a little lathe work. Hopefully the motor plate isn't too difficult to live with for limited street use...I will find out.

I do need to repair or replace that Demon carb shown in the pic, as somehow I managed to warp the secondary metering block a couple years ago. Will probably buy a pair of replacements from BLP. Picked up a QFT 950 and have been using that for awhile....but it is too small for even the 451 per track testing, so I don't want to use it on the 572 unless I swap the main body for something larger (I actually have one on the shelf I forgot I had, and might go down that road).

I have a pretty overkill fuel system, 250gph pump, it's older, need to test it and make it all fit the car a little better than it does currently. The car itself needs more prep than anything else at this point. I do want to replace and repair some sheetmetal and have started doing some of that while waiting for engine parts.

This is a baby step forward towards the RBRE/MP single plane and/or the tunnel ram later on.
I know I need to experiment a little or I'll get bored.

Congrats to you too PS! Thanks!