1965 Chevy Pickup & Hemi Hydro combo

Thanks Dennis, this one is actually coming together so smoothly it's scaring me! Everything I've added has just fallen into place, it's kind of eerie!

I got the fuel tank for the boat finished. I made a gas cap for it (Like the one I used on my '50 Chevy Pickup), drilled the tank, glued the cap on, and painted it with some Metalizer Aluminum Plate. It's all buffed out and ready to be installed once the boat has it's paint snafu corrected!

I got my exhaust pipe drilled out, painted with some Metalizer Stainless Steel, buffed and installed on the frame. I also got the exhaust manifolds painted (Stainless Steel & Burnt Iron), and installed on the engine!

Next up was gluing the engine in place and getting the exhaust glued to the manifolds. This was not an easy task, trust me! I held the glued joint together for almost an hour, then jammed an X-Acto blade between the crossmember and exhaust to keep it straight...it seems to have finally worked!

After getting the chassis for the truck completed, I moved back to the boat's engine. I glued the thermostat housing in place, cut my braided lines to size, grabbed four fittings, and started getting them attached to the headers.

Thermostat housing glued down...



Lines and fittings ready to be glued in place....



First line glued to the header...



And the second line in place. The next step will be getting the lines glued to the thermostat housing!