'71 Dart 6.4L swap progress being made!

Good to see your making progress. My swap on the other hand has kinda gone down a rabbit hole lol. It's the perverbial one step forward and 2-5 steps back. I had to walk away from it for about a month and let my head clear. First attempt at start up netted me some Gold Box damage which had to be repaired and was my fault. So with the issue corrected I was able to get a good start on the engine with no Gold Box issues. I had to do some tuning on the fuel table and noticed a puff of what I thought was steam while I was looking at my laptop. Well, long story short, the alternator wire shorted and melted all the casing and wire loom. The steam I saw was actually brake fluid burning from the wire laying over on the firewall brake line and torching a hole in it. It's always fun to step out and have a fire going in the engine compartment. See where the 1 forward and 2-5 backwards is going? Of course to replace the brake line the intake had to come off, the engine wiring harness had to be pulled back into the car to remove and reinstall a new brake line. I have all of that corrected so with any luck, next week I can start working on the tune and maybe get to the point of a test drive. I have other things going on that need my attention or I'd be back finishing up repairs. These cars are named DEMON for a reason...

And while I'm thinking about it, the master cylinder (cheap chinese crap) decided to quit working and the piston was actually working it's way out into the inside of the firewall. There was no snap ring groove machined into the mc. The replacement looks more like an original casting and has that snap ring. The mc had to come off anyways so that was my moment of, it had to come off anyways so I can replace it so that's not a wasted effort.