40FordDeluxe,
I looked through your diesel Corvette thread and that is definitely like no other! I really like diesels and that's a very unique build.

Mine is progressing slowly but surely. The front corners of the oil pan had to be modified with cuts and welds to clear the headers and that turned out good. Now the headers are fully mounted and most of the exhaust is done; we extended the twin 2-1/2" pipes all the way to the back where the polished bumper bar is (my buddy made that) and it looks so nice I'm going to skip the exhaust tips until further notice or forever. We're thinking of cutting the ends at a slight slash cut and polishing from the axle back. The bases for my bomber seats are done but not installed yet; we made those out of maple and mahogany and decided to enclose the 6X9 speakers in each base in case I want to hear music (maybe when I'm parked and necking with the wife since I'm not sure how loud this will be yet). I'm waiting for the upholstery guy to finish the padding and then the seats are in and just about done and ready to roll. When we took out the Lokar shifter that was in it when I bought the car we realized it was a hacked up piece of crap and couldn't even shift into low (never tried that while driving or I would have known) and otherwise felt pretty poor. I don't even think it was made for a TH350. I didn't really want a ratchet shifter, trying to maintain a flavor of street hot rod vs drag car, so I got a new Lokar and it's like night and day and feels so positive I'm looking forward to shifting it pretty soon. As I mentioned in my thread asking about finned valve covers, as soon as I get some pics with the TriStar covers to entertain the TriStar folks, I'm swapping them for Trans-Dapt finned valve covers and a matching oval air cleaner. It's getting close!

Here's some updated pics:











As The Firesign Theatre used to say "Forward into the past!"