my slant buildup

hope you don't mind, this isn't destined for an A body/// and might well end up in my F body down the road, depending on how well it carries my D150.... hey, we all need parts haulers, right?
I have been looking between here and /6.org at different people's builds, and it seems like alot are similar, and looking for much the same in the end.
I have bits and pieces of my build scattered about FABO, want to put it all together or at least as much as I can... If you guys don't like it that is just TOUGH.... at least it'll be a reference that I can look back on and remember how I did it, where my head was at this time..... but if you guys want to follow along and critique my build, my thoughts, etc, that's fine too.... (and what Id rather have!)

I started looking for a super 6 setup..... actually 2, since both me and my son now have slant trucks.... and wound up with most of an extra engine attached to the 2nd super 6 setup I found haha...... the 1st one I got I also got 2 extra peanut heads with..... so making lemonade out of a pile of "lemons" (extra, otherwise unneeded parts that came along with the super 6 stacks "for the ride" so to speak..)
I've had slant trucks before, and been down the "yank it and go with a V8" route before...I like different, and keeping my /6 truck, all /6, is different from most I have known, over the years... as is being a Dodge truck guy instead of "some other brand" in the 1st place!!! And somehow I find myself missing the distinctive sound of the /6 that I grew up with.....
My truck's an 85, reg cab 2wd with 8' bed, a 727 (which stays! a welcome surprise) a slant with slightly under 100K original, 3.21 rear gears and a better body than many trucks 25 years newer around here.... Being a fleet mechanic for the miserable state of IL., who seems to love their Ford trucks (I sure DON'T! especially the newer they get) makes me really NOT want a "newer" truck. as does the overblown prices of them. this isnt my 1st 72-93 Dodge truck and hopefully not my last.

I got the truck incomplete, (manifolds and carb were off the truck, and wiring was nothing short of a disaster under the hood) it had been sitting at least a few years that I know of in this guy's front yard, maybe more. The PO said it sat alot when the previous to him, previous PO had it sitting too (rumored 10 years in a barn) I set out to get the original engine running (I did,) and it is a DOG. even after fixing the clogged cats,a tune up, NOS vac advance distributor, Lean burn-ectomy, fresh carb and more. though it runs like a sewing machine.
I've had slants before that did pretty well in getting the vehicles the vehicles they were in, down the road. and having been a member of here and the /6 site for years, and a pure Dodge fan since before I could (legally) drive, I know they can be improved on.
and along that road, I know the V8s of the 80s as they came from the factory weren't anything to write home about, either (for what they were) and I thought I could sure wake up a slant, to at least somewhere in between" the power levels of a "stock for the mid 80s" 318 or 360.... ~150-ish HP? Why not? I don't have to find a V8 radiator, a V8 specific trans, or oil pan or mounts, or accessory brackets, so that meant I could have "more" to put into the engine itself.... it sounded like a good idea at the time, we shall have to see, Add in taht this isn't yet a daily driver so I didnt have to be in any hurry, I could buy parts as they came along for a better deal..... New old stock stuff, made before "Made in China" ever became the issue it currently is. lets see how taht all is working out.

TO BE CONTINUED