I've been a BAAAADDDD Boy!!!
I've been slacking off because of the heat. I have been pecking a way at things a little at a time. I'll catch you up on that stuff.
I tried working with the original dash but it turned out to be more of a hindrance than a help. So I removed the old "Purdy" chrome (heavy) dash and built a gauge panel frame welded to the steering wheel support. I ran angle aluminum stringers behind from side to side, and there will be two down below to attach the bottom of the dash to. This is the gauge panel with the 5 inch speedometer and one 2 5/8 gauge so far.
You can see the angle runners that I will tie all of the other dash panels to behind the projected panel. In the second pick you can see the Lokar swinging spoon gas pedal assembly. I tried to run two individual cables, one to each carb but the 90 degree curve required to make them work caused a real crappy notchy/grinding feeling as the cables slid inside the sheaths. So I'm still working on that. But I originally intended to just use the spoon throttle assembly by itself until I realized the original factory gas pedal worked great to actuate the spoon assembly. If you look at the second pic you can see the set up down there.
The trunk is pretty well laid out. Tank is mounted, gas filler is added on, the back outlet and a bottom outlet are all drilled and fittings are bolted in. With two outlets I have the option of pulling from the very bottom or the back bottom of the tank. The bottom one allows me to mount the pump under the trunk floor and the back bottom outlet allows me to mount the pump inside the trunk. The pump is a Magnafuel 500 with built in inlet filter and by pass regulator. -12 in and -12 out of the pump. I've made the tank outlets -16 with an adaptor down to the -12 at the pump so there is never any restriction feeding the pump. -12 all the way to the front regulator. -10 back to the tank. This is a shot of the trunk in all it's packed glory. Tank in place, radiator in place, pump in place near radiator outlet, -23 water return line, -23 water supply to front. Room for battery/batteries. And return water fill T to catch bubbles in the line.
Pic of front water line cap fill T at firewall.
Mark