Pretty much have all the parts painted, earlier someone asked about the color and it is supposed to be Ford Red, at least according to what the can says - we are using a Duplicolor ceramic engine enamel in a spray can. Under that is a Napa self etching primer.

Have one head knurled and glyptaled. The knurling will suffice for now, I am looking into getting set up with valve guide replacement equipment, if I do we will install bronze (?? is that what we want ??) guides. Plan to glyptal the lifter valley as well. Any benefit in glyptal inside the oil pan, valve covers, water pump cover, etc.???

The 2bbl and intake will be used for now until I can find a 4bbl intake (or something cooler ) We are deburring the outside of the manifold for looks and plan to gasket match the intake to the heads. We dont have a flow bench so that will probably be the extent of any port & polish type work. Playing around with different cutters and sanding rolls on the air grinder, what is the best speed and how do you acheive it to cut this cast iron?? It's slow going... The big chrome air cleaner will be replace with a smaller (I think they called them "helmet" or "mushroom" type) more period looking piece when I find one. Need to find out what our exact cam specs are before I settle on a carb...

Still waiting to buy all our gaskets, bearings, etc. What is the verdict on a rebuild kit for the water pump? A new one is not that much more than the kit (at RockAuto.Com) should we even mess around rebuilding one? I thin it would be funner than just bolting on a new piece, but will it work okay??? Definately think we will get a rebuild kit for the oil pump - that is way cheaper than a new one. Hope to eventually put a Pertronix in the dist. but may just go with points for now. I thin we will make some header flanges from 3/8 plate. I help up a set of SBC block huggers the other day and I think we may be able to canabalize them and make them work on some new flanges, maybe not, we'll have to see.

The blue engine is a student engine. it basically underwent a "Krylon" rebuild - I let him go on his own so we will see how he did. He plans to install it (I think) into a Willys p/u - dont know if that is a feasible swap or not, guess we'll find out!

Thanks for listening, and a huge thanks for all the advise and parts - this is a great board!!!