<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RedHeartbeat &#064; Jun 29 2007, 04&#58;38 PM) [snapback]98141[/snapback]</div>
I don&#39;t know why you can&#39;t bypass the p/s all together with a shorter belt, it will be a bitch to steer without the pump unless your truck has a manual steering box. The PCM doesn&#39;t care if you have gauges hooked up or not. I can&#39;t remember the Nelson harness having a place for gauges other than the tachometer. The rest of the gauges need to be done by buying a multi-function gauge that hooks into the PCM&#39;s OBDII connection. Any fbody or truck oil pan should work on your conversion. You will have to get the pickup tube and windage tray from a similar vehicle as the oil pan. Motor mounts are alway fun. You should be able to bolt them in without issue, maybe sliding the transmission back a little for alignment front to back. I&#39;ve never seen the mounts you&#39;re speaking of. As for gauges later on, you&#39;ll probably have to hook up external gauges since the NBS PCM uses one digital signal to feed the data to all the gauges in the dash.
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thanks red. i am looking for a cheap p/s pump, and may have found one, which i agree, is almost a necessity. and i too was looking at the harness, and could not figure out where the gauges would be plugging into. my plan was to just mount some external gauges anyway, look arent that big of a concern right now.

the oil pan thing is good too, the truck pans are a lot cheaper than the f-body pans. i will get some pics up here of the motor mount plates as soon as i find my camera, they look just like the s&p plates i saw in another post on here.

another thing, looking through the S&P catalog, they have their accessory kits for sale with pics. is there a reason for all the idler pulleys? some if the kits have two on the drivers side and two more on the passenger side. are the extra pulleys needed for something? or can i just get a belt for the stuff that i have, crank, water pump, alternator, p/s, and be done?

thanks