Pardon the mess this heap hasn't been to a car wash in a year or two. Not a hell of a lot to see from the front. Probably to my benefit. Figuring out a rad hose with the stock accessories was a pain in the ass. Yeah that's an AC compressor I will probably replace but I tested the hoses and yeah it all fits.
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From the back you can see more. Still needs a fuckton of wire cleanup. I also need to make a bracket for the coil and the MAP. I'm running off Megasquirt II in a GM ECU case with an adapter board. I don't really need the 2.5 bar MAP so I just stuck to a stocker 1 bar. The only real electrical mods I've done are upgrade the alternator wiring (ditched the shitty fusible link and added a fuse) hot wiring the fuel pump and I'm going to add E-fans. There's a Volvo fan installed (it's basically the Taurus setup with a nicer mounting setup) waiting for me to get it done. Not too concerned with that at the moment however. A dirty little secret of cooling fans is if you're not sitting still idling (esp on a hot day) you don't even really need one.
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@stock-t-bird here's my exhaust as it is now. Definitely need to redo these with an offset. I may try to also take the trans cross member and add a spacer of an inch or so and see if the angle goes up a bit. The headers seem to really be leaning downwards right now which is unexpected. I thought I'd measured okay but maybe I didn't. Perhaps I'll find another Astro Van and measure again. I thought I had a decent one of the crossmember but can't immediately find it. WIll take one tomorrow or toss it up if I find it.
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Rando bits I'm looking for right now include a G-van oil filler neck from a 350 and a drivers side (pre-80) oil dipstick and a g-van trans dipstick. Hoping I can fit them all in there, it would be nice to have the OE stuff. I also want to look at LT-1 air boxes and see if there's one I can kind of stuff in there. Another option may be to dig up a stock Astro or G-van air box and hook it in to make it more stock appearing.