I took a whole bunch of boring pictures, most of which were just pics of the boxes the parts came in. This one is interesting though. On top is the stock exhaust manifold, with low diameter piping and strange "twist" bends. On the bottom are the Patriot block-huggers.
The build diary that I have been predominately using to do my swap said that the oil temp sender "screwed into" the hex extender from the block. However, as this picture illustrates, that is impossible - the threads on the metric piece are way smaller.
I went on another parts run today. I picked up a pair of CarQuest motor mounts for 20 bucks. Here I'm bolting them to the bottom of the engine:
They interfere slightly with the shorty headers, so I had to trim a little bit off with the bandsaw:
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Another one of my purchases was this air angle grinder and gasket prep disks. It was a bitch to find these, and eventually I just bought some off of Joey.
Using that gasket cleaner I was able to make these gasket surfaces shiny. However, I did have some issues cleaning up the intake manifold water jacket ports, which were super gummed up, probably from RTV sealant:
While I was cleaning that up, I had to pull out the distributor:
I scribed the block, but I'm not sure how exactly I'm supposed to get it aligned properly again, within a degree.
Also, I picked up this chrome blockoff plate to cover the whole left by the mechanical fuel pump:
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