New project '86 GMC K1500 SWB - Few questions

[jhama78]

Posting up a few pics of my latest acquisition, 86 GMC SWB 4wd. Bought it from the 2nd owner who drove it to the east coast from Colorado. Started life as a 305 truck and its had a 350 gm crate engine swapped in as well as a rebuilt 700R4 installed last year. The truck runs and drives well for its age but like anything thats 29 years old with 150K miles it needs a little bit of work.

My immediate plans are to get a new muffler and tailpipe on it and check out the necessary stuff that it needs to pass Va inspection - lights, wipers, brakes, etc. Also I plan on cleaning up (i.e. ditching) a bunch of the vac lines on the smog stuff since they are falling apart and I dont want to have to deal with vacuum leaks. And before the emissions police pipe up, I dont have to worry about that on a vehicle this old in the area that I live.

Also the stock electric quadrajet is in need of a rebuild/cleaning, so I will most likely buy a reman carb from summit, jegs, etc without the electronics to replace it. While I am at it I plan on swapping out the ESC controlled distributor with a standard late 70s era HEI in order to simplify that as well.

Any tips/pointers that you all can provide so far as desmogging/converting the carb and distributor over to pre-80s configuration would be welcomed.

Here are a few pics of the truck as I got it, I will post another set of pics along with a few more questions below.

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