My first muscle car build thread (lots of pics)

Oh my god, what a rough 2 days its been. Yesterday i pulled the intake off, what happened was the kit came with 318 intake gaskets 340/360 ports are slightly larger. I was under the impression that they just made all the gaskets in 340/360 size. It was a very slight missmatch that somehow I didn't notice when installing.

Put the new gasket on and got everything back together and it still ran like a sack of ****. I closed the hood and consumed a large amount of alcohol that night.

Today I woke up Checked real good for vacuum leaks and couldn't find any. Hammer was swapping intakes on his truck so I borrowed his carb for a few minutes which made no change. Then I started going around the cap pulling wires and it seemed like i had a cylinder or two not doing anything. Then my dad bought me a cap, rotor, sparkplugs and wires. Put those on and it seemed better but the idle was surging. I took it out in the street and laid rubber through first gear. The misfire was finally gone. It still doesn't run perfect I think there is a carb issue of some sort. Idle surges and the screws are way out.

I drove to the gas station and drove around a bit, wen't through all the gears on the trans finally. 4th gear has a nice whine to it but, the rest seem fine. So I guess the bearings and stuff are in decent shape just 4th gear is wore out. I guess it will be fine since 4th is only for cruising at high speed.

Anyway I'm pretty happy, Just gotta iron out this idle issue and then I can start tuning the carb and maybe modify the distributor so I can run more initial timing. I can't wait to drive this thing everywhere!