With the garage cleaned out to make space for it to live in, I got the truck dropped back home. I had the new engine sat on a stand so needed to sit it between the rails temporarily on some wooden blocks to make space for the truck. With the motor being a truck motor it has a very deep pan which I wanted to keep if possible. It also made it a pain to get over the rail and into the firewall recess, but after a lot of messing about in the rain it dropped in. The adapter plates were miles away from the Camaro mounts so I decided to dump them and make new mounts to go onto the plates. After a lot of messing about trying to get the old mounts off I got the grinder out and chopped the bolts off and shoved some wood blocks in to hold it still for now.

It needs to come back a few inches as you can see in the pic, but I plan to take the manifold off, get a box on there and set the angle before I worry too much about the firewall recess. The truck manifold is ugly as sin, but a swap to a LS1/LS6 manifold means new accessories which I’d like to avoid. I did think of using an Edelbrock Victor Jr manifold with an elbow for the throttle body but I’d rather spend the money on forged pistons and rods than a manifold that wont gain me anything over what I have. I’m hoping to make a start on cutting the factory loom down in the evenings so I’m ready to go with that when I’m out of things to do on the ’55. Sadly that’s got to the point where it needs lots of things bought for it rather than lots of work so it’s slowed down a bit. It’ll be out and about soon tho, can’t wait.