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I have been trying to devote a few minutes each evening to getting something on this project. I finished bending up the transmission cooler lines and getting them installed. A lot of that was time consuming as I would need to work around the Camaro front clip and the 57's radiator core support. Either way that is completed.

I have also been working out the fuel lines for the EFI. The system requires a feed and return line, the return is supposed to connect back to the tank. The tank is a Mustang type with the sending unit mounted in the lower portion of the front, there is no provision for a return line. Holley recommends mounting the return in the top of the tank with a tube running to the bottom. There is no hole large enough to get a wrench through let alone my hand.

the work around I came up with is to feed the return line back to the feed line. I used a tee fitting installed just prior to the first filter and before the fuel pump. I routed the return line along the feed line to the front inside the passenger side frame rail. From there the fuel lines must transition the the back of the firewall and up to the throttle body. I haven't worked out the transition as yet, it must cross over the transmission bellhousing and up from there.

Most of this is trial and error, bend and fit, so it has taken some time to get this far. had this been my project solely I would have managed all of this prior to mounting the cab and bed.