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Joe, I do love how you take a pile of plastic parts and make them look like a functioning heavy metal motor. Always a feast for the eyes.

I third that motion. It looks like you could fire up that engine and run it!

Thanks guys.

Ok folks. I've been on and off at the bench for the last few months so progress has been pretty thin as of late. The bench time will become less frequent during the month of January due to my sons FFA show for a week in mid January. It's gonna be a crazy week with lots of preparation for the show in the days before it so I'll be trying to get what I can in on this bad boy before that.

As for now I've got more done on the engine. The air cleaner is merely resting on top of the throttle body in this picture. I be lowering it somewhat as it sits way too high. I'll also be adding some fuel lines to the back of the throttle body, some throttle linkage and will be installing an ignition coil. I'll probably put a little more "droop" in the plug wires from the distributor to the rocker cover area as well. For such a detailed engine I'm not sure why the ignition coil wasn't included in the kit.

Happy Holidays, Joe! Beautiful 454.

Thanks Bruce. I did a few adjustments to this thing today. I put a little droop in the ignition wires just behind the cylinder heads as they just didn't look right and that air cleaner was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too high. I shaved some off of the bottom of the air cleaner and installed at the proper height. I also added an ignition coil and some fuel delivery lines. I was going to add some throttle linkage but everything I had was incorrect and it's much to intricate of detail to scratch build and get to look right so I left that part alone. There'll be an intake duct attaching at the air cleaner inlet and mounting on passengers side inner fenderwell later after the engine gets installed into the truck.

Finished 454:

Holy malony, that engine looks just Wouh !

Aaand those details... the recently changed oil filter is just soo perfect!




- Kari

Thanks Bruce and Kari.

Kari:This is going to be what’s called a “Day 2” build which means it’ll be built as a truck that is brand new on the second day of ownership. That’ll be the factory oil filter that’s on the engine. The only upgrades to this truck will be a wheel and tire swap.

mustang1989 wrote:Thanks Bruce and Kari.

Kari:This is going to be what’s called a “Day 2” build which means it’ll be built as a truck that is brand new on the second day of ownership. That’ll be the factory oil filter that’s on the engine. The only upgrades to this truck will be a wheel and tire swap.

Are you sure? No other changes?