1970 Duster AlterKtion, 4 Link, LS/T56/Turbo and Minitub

Well got the car back together and took it for a spin. It felt so much better with the new coils in it! The first pull was only a couple seconds before I had to turn and it was quite impressive. The second pull blew a coolant hose off the motor so we pulled over. The top of the motor was leaking oil at that point (almost looked like from the knock sensor hole?) and is now skipping lol. Walked back to get coolant (if walking home isnt hot rodding idk what is lol) and it still didnt run right. If I stepped on it and let off it was smoking white which tells me head gasket. But I have head studs. So idk. Its back in the garage on time out. I'll pull the intake and heads off when I get a minute.

Side note: when sitting in the car there was SO much engine noise almost like the air filter was wicked loud. Finally figured out what it was. The cheap *** chinese sheet metal intake was like a tuning fork. If you pushed on the top of it really hard with your hand it went away. Soooo I already found a TBSS intake for it lol. Thats going on it now. Just sucks cause the sheet metal ones look really cool.

Also got a set of factory truck manifolds. May redo the headers because I'm getting tired of having to pull the headers every time I wanna do a compression test etc.