Just to clean up my thread a little and condense some posts that were made on the fly.
Sat down and wrote out a list of the things i knew I needed to get this thing breathing and moving under its own power.
Then through the classifieds on another site and a few phone calls with summit I ended up with a good haul.
Other than the fabbed valve covers and headlights that should be here tuesday I went ahead and got
Headgaskets
ARP head studs (not messing with bolts this go around)
Intake Gaskets
Exhaust Gaskets
1" carb spacer
gasket set for the Holley
extended carb studs
intake studs
flush fabbed cover bolts
VC gaskets
a cap for the carb since it wont be seeing a filter often
a set of Trickflow Stud mount 1.7 Rocker arms
Compcams magnum 8.5" pushrods that i believe will fit the bill but just in case
I also picked up an adjustable pushrod and checker spring to do a little measuring if the 8.5s wont work
The 205's being the "renegade" head with the raised ports and big exhaust runners dont take the standard Felpro series that most of the other AFR, TFS, ect heads use so they were a hair more expensive but I went with what the AFR rep suggested so hopefully there wont be any problems there.
Got a Moroso Battery kill switch as well. 300 amp 4 post version. Mostly so it will be track legal when the time comes but I also found a trick way
to mount it so I wanted to go ahead and get it all lined out while im wiring up the 1-wire alt and the rest of the electrical system
went with the switch over the push/pull type for now as both are NHRA legal and the switch I feel is much cleaner.
Plus it will allow me to mount it in the license plate area and run a trick setup that I found a couple other guys doing on a different board.
Will be able to extend the bolts and use some washers to push the license plate out a bit and keep the switch concealed during street duty (mostly so people wont feel the need to flip switches and push buttons like they always do). Pop the plate off and roll into the burnout box, I think it will work well.
got a lead on a GER built c4 with a bunch of goodies but i went ahead and dropped a good amount of money on these parts figuring theres no sense buying a fully built tranny for a car that cant get out of its own way. Cross that bridge when I get to it.
Hoping to be able to fit all this under a 4" cowl as I want to be able to see the passenger side of my car (silly i know).
So i had plans to mock it all up and measure, and that turned into going ahead and assembling the top end anyways. I have the lifters soaking for a bit to make sure theyll stand up when the time comes, only concern now is piston clearance with the 2.08s and the springs being stiff enough to do valvetrain damage with the flat tappet. Going to do a little more reading for the next few days and figure out what steps need to be taken. Always up for helpful advice, but i realize this isnt the route most of you guys have/would go anyways.
needless to say im excited to get it running and take it out for a spin, need to get the rear
suspension lined out and being able to drive it will be a big help.
Still have a long way to go before im satisfied but ive knocked a pretty healthy chunk off my list for the time being and I realize this car isnt orientated to appeal to most of the guys on this board but it helps me keep a timeline and reminds me im making progress however slow it may be.