Ok, it's been a year now since I have posted on this thread. My budget and build/conversion came to a screaming stop last February when I had to give $1400 of it to my dog's vet bill. It's that time of the year to get back to business. I had a busy and productive day yesterday. Here is how the truck has been sitting for the past year in my garage.



The motor and transmission are in with the dirty dingo adjustable mounts. It fought a little trying to squeeze over the clamshells, but I won in the end. I had to remove the control arms to get the V8 mounts in place of the old 4.3 mounts.



Got a brand new 05' Silverado radiator and fans for a great price.



Had to trim and drill holes in the core support so the radiator could drop in seat flush. The rear portion had to be trimmed off so the fans could seat in the holding slots on the radiator.



Here it is with bungee cords hold it so I can start fabricating a bracket.



I took a narrow piece of stainless and bent it up to align with the mount holes on the radiator. Once all of the the bends were correct, I used it to made a large support that spanned 40 1/2", which is the width of the radiator.





Here it is with both the radiator and fans installed. I welded the nuts to the inside of the flange to make a permanent nutplate for easy and quick install/removal.





Now I attempted to tackle this devil again......wiring. I had originally planned to used the factory under hood fuse box, but after many incidents of confusing myself, I decided to abandon the plan and thin the harness like LT1Swap.com tells me to.





Here is the original and destroyed 4.3 harness.



I decided to mount the computer before finishing up the harness. I am putting it where the factory air box use to attach to the fender. I bent the flanges flat and welded them a piece of steel that I cut to fit the computer. I applied some extra time epoxy and bonded it to the computer.





And here it is mounted in place.



Now that that is mounted in place, I started to run my wires. This was very difficult for me because I dropped my harness when crawling into the engine bay and my nice coil job became a tangled mess. I got it sorted out mostly. Still needs some TLC.



I am going post some questioned later today after I finish up in the garage about graphing the tagged and labeled ends of my harness into the truck. Thanks for looking and any help in advance.