Finally get to pretend I am one of the cool kids - Holley kit swap

O yep thats a good point, i am running power steering as well. Going to be interesting fitting all that. As dont think manual conversion is an option as getting manual column in Australia would be difficult haha. Watching very keenly mate as i have the same set up, have all the parts just not at this stage of build yet

You know you have to run a Borgeson box, right? And Holley has hard lines for the box that they say have to be installed before dropping the motor in.

One thing I would suggest is spend some time making sure the Holley mounts fit into the saddles before dropping the motor in. Mine were too tight to get them in and I had to open up the ears a bit with a rubber mallet. And I still didn't get them fitting right so while I got it the motor in, it is going to take a prybar to get the mounts out of the k-frame saddles.