Quote Originally Posted by Ken Thurm
Yes, everything will fit behind the hood. To make things more difficult I'm going to make the side panels in one piece. Normally (or normal people) split it around the push rod so it's easy to get the side panels off. I don't want that extra parting line on the side panel. So to remove the side panel I will have to take the weight off the suspension and remove the bolts holding the push rod in and then take the side panel off. This gives me the opportunity to screw up my paint job every time I take them off
Interesting - looks like in your 3rd picture that the bell crank will hit....but pictures can be deceiving

Once you get any bugs wrung out, you shouldn't have to pull the sides off but very seldom anyhow - every 75-100K to change the plugs, maybe??