I'm pretty sure that if I hooked up the 12v wire to the alternator, and installed the pushrods and rocker arms (and other misc things like radiator hoses, PCV system, etc) I could fire this baby up! I'm working on figuring out what a few wires go to in the swap harness right now, there's about 3 or 4 of them that I haven't finished up yet. It's getting very close, and with Vet's Day on Wednesday, and my work being closed (bank), I think I'm going to get very close to test-start this week. Cross your fingers for me.
Here's a tease at what I got done tonight. I mounted a power distribution block by the battery so I can run the positive battery cable to it, and then feed all the wires in the harness that need 12v from there. I will be putting loom on all the wires that go to this, so it will clean up nicely. I am running all the wires under a fender brace on the passenger side and then behind the block.
Here you can see that I ran the battery terminal cable behind the battery and the length fits perfectly where I have the power dist. block mounted. It wraps behind the battery by the headlights and comes back by the filler neck for the coolant overflow tank. This terminal went to the alternator on the stock setup, but since it would be hard to get it to stretch to the LS1 alternator, I'm going to run a wire from the back of the alternator, behind the block around the passenger fender like the rest of those wires and to the dist. block. I think it will look nice when done.
