Well, I finially got her started last night. 
It was 11:30 when we finished so I haven't put a timing light on it or anything but she's running. So far I have a vacuum leak and I'm pretty sure I have a an exhaust leak on both sides because 2 header bolts on each side refused to go in straight so I left them out for now just so I could finished putting the rest of the stuff back together. The reason why I said "I'm pretty sure" is because I have open headers until this evening when I get my x-pipe made.
The car is still at my friend's shop because I didn't want to wake up my neighborhood last night with the open headers.
So I'm gonna go pick it up right after work and shoot over to the exhaust shop to get the exhaust done.
I'm proud of myself. This was my first engine build-up. I had never put a motor together before. I'd seen it done many times but I never did it myself until now. Its a really good feeling. Once I work out all the bugs I'll feel even better about it. Of course i didn't do all this alone. I had the help of my good friends. Thanks Brad, James, Brach, Jared, Darryl, Sherman and you too Mitch for moral support. lol Sorry I don't have any pic of the build process but I didn't have access to a camera. So when I get access to a camera I'll take a pic of under the hood.
It was 11:30 when we finished so I haven't put a timing light on it or anything but she's running. So far I have a vacuum leak and I'm pretty sure I have a an exhaust leak on both sides because 2 header bolts on each side refused to go in straight so I left them out for now just so I could finished putting the rest of the stuff back together. The reason why I said "I'm pretty sure" is because I have open headers until this evening when I get my x-pipe made.The car is still at my friend's shop because I didn't want to wake up my neighborhood last night with the open headers.
So I'm gonna go pick it up right after work and shoot over to the exhaust shop to get the exhaust done.I'm proud of myself. This was my first engine build-up. I had never put a motor together before. I'd seen it done many times but I never did it myself until now. Its a really good feeling. Once I work out all the bugs I'll feel even better about it. Of course i didn't do all this alone. I had the help of my good friends. Thanks Brad, James, Brach, Jared, Darryl, Sherman and you too Mitch for moral support. lol Sorry I don't have any pic of the build process but I didn't have access to a camera. So when I get access to a camera I'll take a pic of under the hood.
I'm leaning more towards the ignition switch because when you turn the key back for the accessories none of the accessories or the clock works but they work in the forward("ON") position. But the car does nothing when you try to turn the key to start it. With the key in the ON position all the dummy lights come on but when you turn the key to start the car everything on the dash goes dead.
