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Ok throttle cable is fixed and I get 100% throttle. It also moves easier. Maybe it was in a slight bind before. More driving and tuning and all I have to say is this MFer scoots!!!! I found the rev limiter as expected. The cam really turns on around 3500 and doesn’t stop before my limiter. As...

Could always throw a gear vendors on the 727 later if you change your mind about OD. Those things are kinda spendy though.

I had to force myself to come home with it after I realized I was out for a while and should likely go home and check stuff over. No oil or coolant drips! I may be more happy about no oil drips than the new exhaust note! Hahaha. The good news is, the winter rarely shuts me down from driving...

Got the exhaust installed and messed with the cranking and idle fueling. It seems pretty decent, but will definitely need more tweaking. It’s so hot this time of year the water temperature never gets below 75 degrees even after sitting a day. I decided to try the auto tune function in tuner...

With the exception of the catch can and some AC lines (which won't be visible), the engine compartment is pretty much done. I painted the HEMI badging on the coil covers with the same paint that's on the exterior of the car. I was having trouble deciding which color to go with, but a good friend...

Could always just throw a 2.76 gear in it and roll! Honestly, that's likely what I would do if I were to put that many miles on the car even with the OD. 75mph at 1800RPM, yes please.

Man, the Power Tour has always been a bucket list item for me. It passed through the city I live in about 10 years ago but my car was in pieces. I always have hope that it will head back south again. For the last several years, the drive to get to it would be longer than the actual tour. I have...

My gates hose clamps came in Saturday so I was able to get the heater hoses and power steering suction line completed and get fluids topped off. I ran the car on and off for about an hour until my wife had enough of the open headers. Apparently it was rattling the walls in the house. Hmmm, I...

I have them wrapped with techflex wire loom to protect them. No issues yet!

@Dantra I wiped the white printing off the gates shrink clamps with lacquer thinner. It came off with zero effort.

The headlight, horn, and fan wiring is all in the driver side fender well. I attached some P clamps with nuts to the bottoms of the fender bolts to hold the wiring up. AC and heater hoses are in the passenger side fender well held in the same manner.

It runs! My gates heat shrink hose clamps didn’t show up so I could run it for very long. I put 2 gallons of coolant in it and it still isn’t even up to the water pump. That was enough for me to run a couple minutes. That single big throttle body sure makes throttle response snappy. It’s pretty...

I knocked 15% fuel out of the whole fuel table since the engine is 15% smaller in displacement. No idea if that has any relevance, but figured it would be a good place to start. For the timing table, I found a few examples online and made some things up based on those tables. It's pretty...

Ended up getting the coil drivers installed last night. It wasn't as time consuming as I thought it would be. Taking the seat out helped make work under the dash easier. For those not knowing or understanding why I needed to install coil drivers, I thought I'd explain it. I was previously...

Not much time on the car over the weekend but managed to knock out a few things. "Cold air intake" adds 25HP, right? This will be painted with Cerakote to match the rest of the black engine parts after I weld my IAC bung and a bracket on it. PS tank and overflow are painted and I had to...

Thanks! I also hate the appearance of worm drive hose clamps. On the LA engine, I had put heat shrink on them and painted them black to mask the ugly. I've never used them, but that's what I intend to use on the heater hoses since both ends have a threaded fitting for removal. I'm going to...

Thanks! I think its going to end up being a cleaner look than the LA engine. Having the accessories mounted low help with that.

Banging out the little things with plenty more to go. Manifold should be on for good, so why not take some photos!

Got a few things knocked out this week. Radiator is in, upper hose in an 06 Charger RT hose. The lower I purchased didn't work. I think a hose with a 45 degree angle will work. They seem to be a fairly common universal hose. I trimmed the heater hoses up and they laid out nice and neat. My AC...

When @HemiDenny originally designed his G3 hemi mounts, he used the Milodon oil pan. The Holley cast pan is a little deeper in the front and back and the sump is also in a slightly different position. Denny couldn't say with 100% certainty that the Holley pan would work without some...

I'm using a Northern LS swap radiator. I realized after I replied that mine likely has the connections further out than that vertical flow radiator.

I was going to try a stock upper LX hose and a Gates 20608, which is off a 1980ish Ford Econoline van with a 6 cyl for the lower.

There was a bunch of plastic casting flash and other random things on it. I just sanded them off with a die grinder with a roloc disc and did some final smoothing on those spots with some plastic filler. Valve covers, and intake are painted with Cerakote.

Smoothing the intake and making things color match go a long way with knocking the ugly off. I always do my best to hide wires and hoses. When they can’t be hidden, I try to run them in a neat manner. But to answer your question, yes it does look good. It looks huge in there. Can see the ground...

I got the headers, clutch, bellhousing, and starter on since this picture. Still lots more to go. I'm going to get a buddy to help with the trans. That thing is heavy! My worn out shoulders don't care for awkward overhead lifting anymore.

It's in! All that's left to do is everything.

The perfect solution to the kickdown problem is a manual transmission...lol

You and me both. That's likely one of the biggest things I'm anxious to learn. I know what it use to MPH in the quarter mile from previous years at Moparty. I'm going again this year, so I'll know right away how the 5.7 compares. I think the weight difference is insignificant, but I'll run it...

Does the ECM not control the fuel pump? Seems like it should. You wouldn't want your pump constantly running while you have the key on and the engine not running.

Checking the small things off the list. Z-bar modification done!