1970 cst lwb project "Cheap Build"

[Hottrucks]

Well today it hit the road for the first time..I drove it to the exhaust shop on just the headers...its only about a mile but it fought me the hole way!!! we got the new exhaust up between the frame rails I need to move a few small things like some wires and raise the fuel line but its quieter than the old 283 and I reused the same mufflers??? go figure??
Once it was quited down you could hear a bad skip that was worring me pretty good but I got it back home reset the timing and put the plug wires on in the correct order??:duh: it fired right back up..found out the vacum leak on the booster I bought was way worse than I thought so I'm back on maunal for now....once running I heard a tick coming from what I thought was a Valve so I popped the valve cover (DS and I didn't have to remove the power brake booster either)fired it up and painted the bay with oil which pissed me off since it was just painted??? come to find out that the oil dip stick was hitting he crank..whick I was warned about when I had to swap holes on the block for the rear sump oil pan!!

The two short trips I took I tried to go easy but man this thing is GREAT!! gobs of power..and yes it will roll the pro street up pretty easy....I'm going to take her to dinner tonight pick up some fresh oil and do a hot drain tomorrow...also this block sat around awhile so I have flushed the rad 3 times already and it keeps coming out full of rust colored water..I'm going to keep doing till I feel its all out then back flush the system and give her some decent rad fluid...on that note temps seem to be fine with the 3 core rad a flex fan and a stock shrowd cut down about 1 1/2" shorter to clear the A/C and PS pully

I hope that you guys following along are getting a kick out of it and all this helps someone some day...on a scale of 1-10 I would call this a 8.5 if you do it yourself but only a 7.5 if you have help..its 90% bolt in and drilling a few new holes..I think a front suspention swap is about the same work