[Scott Roberts]

Originally Posted by Scarebird

no, the drivetrain is dead in line horizontally. This is vertical alignment.

Vertical alignment is easy.. on my funny car, I was allowed 1° from the snout of the crank to the diff. I got it within .5 in 10hours. I had a solid bar that was bolted through the mains.

[Scarebird]

I noted that the airbox in my 2016 GMC may fit well in the passenger side battery area. Not so much...

[Scarebird]

Work has been a bugger the last 2 months. Little time to work on the 71 other than pecks and paws.

Last month worked on sorting out the wiring harness while the engine is out.

Swap Time did a decent job but definitely room for improvement. Note once again this motor is a pretty new architecture that is kinda slow to catch on as far as I can see.

I cleaned up the wiring a bit, made a bracket to retain the harness under the front of the oil pan. The drawings are available for the asking. The OEM 2014-19 harness guide does not match the 2020 motor so it was trimmed back to fit better. I also will incorporate a couple extra wires in the harness for stuff like oil sender feed as I am running steam gauges currently.

[Scarebird]

Time to clean up the driver's inner fender. While practical I did not like the kluge the headlight relays and busses presented. The battery is now in the trunk so this stuff will go behind the LH head light core support area.

Other extraneous wiring will go away too.

[Scarebird]

The engine harness has a plug that connects to a sub-harness which runs off under the dash mating with such things as the OBD II port and pedal rheostat assembly.

Needless to say we don't want such things just flopping about so this wee clip was fashioned. It slips in the plug and then screws into the intake assembly securing it Bristol fashion.





It is the details that take so damn long to do here.