So much to do, don't know whats next, need advice

OCswinger said
What you're saying makes perfect sense to me. I think I'll make the updated list, and since I put the cart before the horse with the paint, I'll have to schedule future work in stages. I see you're in Nor Cal as well. Might have to have you over to lend a hand when it comes back from paint

You didn't put the cart before the horse with paint. Paint gets done first if you're going to completely go through the car. If you do it any other way, you have to undo all of your other work for paint. That's the boat I'm in. I built my car mechanically first. Which is great, I can drive and enjoy my car as it is and that's why I did it. Being able to drive it means a lot more to me than a nice paint job, I don't care much about how my car looks for paint as long as it has enough on it not to rust. :D But eventually I am going to paint it, which is going to mean at least a partial disassembly (if not a complete one!). And all of the work to disassemble it and then reassemble it again after paint will be work I've done at least twice. When I upgrade my transmission to a T56 the interior that I re-did will have to be completely pulled out and then reinstalled. And my T56 has been sitting on my bench for almost two years, because my Duster is my daily driver and I haven't had the time to disable it for a couple weeks to do the conversion. Should have done that before I put it back on the road as my daily!

So yeah, in my opinion you did it right. The paint is done, so you don't have to go back and strip the car again later to do that. Now just work on the mechanical stuff until that's done, then the interior. And when it's all done you should have a car that you don't have to go back and pull apart and reassemble to finish something else.

AJ/FormS said
Ok My 2 cents
If this is a streeter with 435 hp or less (like mine,lol), You don't need the MSD nor the fancy fuel system. The savings could make your day.

Great point. The stock electronic ignition with a plate to adjust the timing advance curve works pretty well, as do a lot of the "stand alone" electronic distributors. Which will set you back less than a full MSD system. And for less than 450 hp or so a good mechanical pump works great unless you're going fuel injection. I just run a Carter "strip super" mechanical pump with 3/8" stainless hard line from inline tube on my 340 with a pressure regulator to dial the pressure back a little for the Holley 750 DP. Whole system probably cost less than an aeromotive electric pump, and it supplies my 400+ ish hp 340 just fine. Probably overkill as it is.