[Matt Cramer]

I decided to use a Street & Performance kickdown cable bracket. The bracket was ridiculously overpriced - $50 including shipping gets you a flat 2" piece of sheet metal with two holes in it, one of which makes no sense whatsoever. Would have fabbed my own if I'd known what I was getting. The kickdown cable wasn't long enough to reach; I'm trying to adapt something that I think was meant for a 700R4.

Other stuff that I need to get some pictures of:

1. The exhaust was pretty easy to set up - Camaro manifolds exit straight down and more or less lined up with the stock pipes, so I just needed a set of 2 bolt flanges, 90 degree bends, and a couple feet of piping. Someday I'd like to come back and put a crossover pipe in there.

2. Ended up attaching the MS3-Pro ECU to the A/C evaporator box with riv-nuts. Sounds a bit crazy but it ought to work. It's pretty lightweight and designed to go under the hood, but there wasn't any other good spot on the firewall.

3. Radiator hoses from a 2005 Silverado are almost a direct fit. I did have to trim an inch off both ends of the lower one.

4. Bent a new brake line to snake around the exhaust better. After getting nowhere with a Mity-Vac, a co-worker suggested I just open the bleeders at the back one at a time and gravity bleed the system. Got all the air out with a lot less work.

The truck starts and runs, and I've moved it a couple feet under its own power yesterday. Another project was blocking it in, but on Monday I'll run it around the parking lot and see if there's anything else I need to correct before it goes on the dyno.