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The choice has been made ... Will use the GM cast shorty covers ... The price was much less than the Bowtie tall covers ... And I found a 4 bolt main 454 block ... This will change how the motor will be built ... Thinking about doing a stroker net 496 cubes ... " Get the chickens & kids out of...

I don't want to notch the firewall .. Really I don't !! I'm real close to shooting the Bed Liner on it, still got the center section to work ...

Not a whole lot of room back there ... Even the shorty covers might have fitment issues ??

A friend had these tall boy aftermarket valve covers ... Think I like the no name factory GM grooved covers better .. Do a powder coat finish in satin black and net a back to new look ..

One of these days I'll have the wall ready to shoot ...

Cool Beans ... Found a set of 049 heads .. Their bare, no valves or springs .. My plan is to use 11/32" stems and oversize the valve heads a little .. Springs is matched to the Comp hyd flat tappet cam .. Would love to go roller, but after looking at prices decided not to ...

Hind of glad it wasn't .. If it was a 4 bolt I'd be building into a hi-revving motor .. Parts to do that kind of a build are expensive ... And what the hell am I going to do with having 700+ HP on tap .. ? (Find driveline parts to break .. ??) ... :oops: ...

It was a two bolt ... Just as well cause I'm not planning to tach it past 5,500 rpm's .. On the hunt for a set of 1973-up 049 oval port heads .. These have the hard seats, with a wee bit of port and bowl work, a slight increase in valve size might see around 550/600 HP .. The motor came with...

GM did some wild stuff with the Gen IV Big Blocks ... The casting number could be a two or four bolt block ? Bout the only way to know for sure is to pull the pan .. Found out something interesting about this motor ... It could have four bolt main caps on a block that was drilled only for two...

Really didn't need this, but it's one of those deals that you wouldn't want to pass up .. Came out of a low mileage 1988 motorhome .. One of these days the old Binder going to have a 454 Big Block in it ... Eek !! I checked on the block's casting numbers .. Same block that the 1990 454 SS...

Needed to install a coolant sensor in the engine block somewhere .. On the head was a 1/2" NPT plug doing nothing, my thought was since the electric fan controller was going to be mounted on the same side that pipe plug would be a good spot to have the sensor .. Well Sir ... It didn't want to...

I'm with ya ... A mess it is .. And going to be more of a mess when the A/C, stand alone trans controller and sound system wiring gets installed ....

Moving right along with getting the fuse panel nailed to the firewall .. Do think this will work really well .. Got the wires coming out at the top of the panel will help with keeping them mostly out of sight .. Real close on having all holes filled and the needed holes drilled ... Need to...

Almost got the cruise cable moved to the big hole .. Waiting on parts .. Looks much better and should work super well .. (There on a slow boat from China)

Thanks .. Got a lot of time and effort wrapped up in it ..

Looks like it's going to work okay .. Got one of the standoffs located ... Will pull the pad and weld that one to the wall, reinstall the pad and locate the other standoff .. This 12V to 6V reducer only works the factory gauges ... Been on the truck a long time and will be going back into...

Going to have the cruise cable pulling from the big hole ... May result in less jerking or hunting .. Cruise cable is nailed down so it won't be floating around under use .. New replacement air cleaner fits really good .. Hope to nail down the fuse panel to the firewall tomorrow .. Got...

Modified the Holley cable bracket to work the cruise cable, should work alright .. ?? Gotta drill a hole in the firewall since the cruise module is mounted under the dash ..

Getting geared up to jump into wiring some of it ...

The firewall pad used clips that went though the wall .. I welded in studs that holds the pad to the wall and fills up a few more holes ... Getting more of the smooth look on the motor side firewall ..

I'm back to working on the firewall .. Welding up unused holes is taking forever cause there are so many .. The idea is to net a smoothie look ... All the wiring will be going though this passthrough box ... Will have only two cables on the wall .. Speedo and throttle .. Maybe ?? Must...

Small block Chevys' seems to be the choice of most Hot-Rods ..

That's next on the to do list .. Must finish working the firewall, lots of holes to weld up .. Will be seeing POR-15 on the inside, engine side will get epoxy primer and after sanding bed liner will be applied ... All of the engine bay will have the bed liner .. That's going to take some time...