first drive!

well i took my k10 for its first drive since september but its first time out with the new motor/trans/stall. it did alright i still got some bugs to work out. ive got a bad plug wire thats giving me a fit so that will be fixed asap. my biggest problem im having is something keeps killing my batt. its driving me crazy im on my 3rd one since last june they keep heaving a cell go bad!!!! im having a feeling its maybe the alt going bad or gone. i drove it maybe a mile total lol. got to the gas station filled up one tank with fresh gas and went to fire it and the batt was dead so the wife had to bring the yukon and jump me. but man i love the looks you get ridding around in something with a lumpy cam and open headers hahaha. the new transmission shifts nicely and the converter seems just right for this aplication. its a 12in 2800 converter i had it in one of my f-bodys with the cammed 305 and it would footbrake about 1900 and flash to 2200. seems to footbrake about 2k in the truck with the 357.