U/SA 302 ffffford build

[goinbroke2]

Can't get a break, lol...
Got the converter/transmission and valve body installed.
Got the 5.14's installed
Got header collectors fabbed up and installed

Fired it up and running like crap then quit. No gas in the tank? Whatever, filled it up and squirter is spraying weird. Pull carb and open it up and it is full of brown sludge from the gas tank...crap. Stripped carb and cleaned it, fired it back up, runs good again. (ordering a fuel cell over the winter)

Go through the gears, I have park/reverse/neutral/LOCKED UP/2nd/3rd.
Unhooked the shifter, maybe it's not "perfect"? Nope, same, it's the valve body or what I did or didn't do to it. It feels like a tranny brake, I gave it a bit of throttle and it was torquing against the converter. I ground out the 4 slots indicated and didn't grind the 2 for the tranny brake but maybe I screwed up?

So, once it cools, drain the tranny and pull the valve body to see what I did wrong. I also send a message to Broader performance to see if they can help diagnose it.

Unrelated but also a factor in getting this done, I was diagnosed with an "aggressive" cataract in my left eye and even had to go to emerg one day. Yesterday I found out my cousin (we are identical, everyone calls us twin cousins) has stage 4 cancer.

I always said I don't mind getting old, I just refuse to grow up. Well now, getting old is getting on my nerves too...