5.2 in a 68 Barracuda

It's alive !! It's alive !! It's alive !!

I got the engine fired today! Finally, to hear an engine run in this car after a year and a half! Biggest problem I've had in the past week is that I have had 4 batteries to go bad, including my daily driver.

Now, the biggest problem is that the engine won't stop with the key. Somehow, The run wire to the PCM is constantly hot. I have what I thought was that wire connected to IGN1 on the ignition switch. That wire is constantly hot coming to the switch. That ain't right! Tomorrow, back to wiring again.

It was actually pretty easy to get it fired, aside from the fact that the distributor shaft was 180* out. I thought for sure that I had triple checked that!

Fuel pressure and pump are acting correctly. I insulated the airtex external pump and it really doesn't make much noise at all. You can hear it for about 2 seconds when you first turn the key on.

I took the cooling fan off, opting to install electric fan(s). Haven't done that yet. I don't have any anti-freeze or water in the coolant system either. I wanted to run flush through it before filling with anti-freeze.

I need to get the accelerator cable installed. Just need to figure out how I'm going to make a square hole from a round hole in the pedal assembly. Speaking of cables, I need to get the brackets, levers, and cable for the transmission kickdown.

Once all of that is done, it's off to the muffler shop for pipes. I already purchased a pair of DynoMax 2 1/2" super turbos for mufflers. Guess I need to get a couple of exhaust flanges for the Ram manifolds.

Anybody connected an aftermarket tach to this setup? I have a small sunpro that I mounted in the dash and need to connect it. I'm just being lazy by asking. I can always run it down through the wiring diagrams. These new style diagrams are so damned confusing and tedious!

I would like to thank everybody on here that has helped me in this endeavor - especially Matt and Dave.

Stay tuned - more to come!