Byrd's underhood and front clip clean up

[byrd]

I have been kicking around the idea of going to the national meet in July and if I go I am taking my driver and didn't want it to look like crap.
The hood has been fubarred for a while, ps fender is full of bondo, and the ds fender and grill are my doing(d$%^ neon driving little punk)
I have had a straight front clip(wrong color of course), a great looking grill,
rust free GM inner fenders,
new heater core
rebuild heater box,
new valve covers, breather,
front shocks 6 lug disc brake up grade with 2.5" drop spindles,
power brakes,
new plugs and custom fit wires,
totally rebuild the front suspention( ball joints, inner outer tie rods, control arms bushings,
add front sway bar and poly bushings,
4" drop springs in the rear, new adj track bar, new trailing arm bushings, will most likely blast the trailing arms while I have them out for the bushings, replace front light harness,
put new intake gaskets on the engine(probably a water pump too while I am in there) and clean and repaint it,
remove front crossmember and have it blasted along with the uca and lca, replace the front hard brake lines and the brake hose in the rear along with new rear drop shocks.
New carpet and dash pad
maybe even throw my black buddy buckets that I have saved up for Frank in there for now.
I also ordered a set of wheels for it, here is the photoshop link..
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=292063

So I have about 5 weeks to get this done and should not be a problem. I started on it a week ago and have gotten the front clip off, firewall cleaned and painted(most of it anyway) new heater core installed got the front susp tore apart and the engine out on a stand ready to be cleaned up. I have almost got the front crossmember out, 3 of the bolts are really in there so I stopped on it and started cleaning the frame to get it ready for eastwoods two part converter, rust inhibitor and top coat of high gloss chassis black(front portion up to the cab only for now).
Anyway enough of that on to the pics, the first few are the before pics and the rest is well you know...