ya know, that's an answer I'd like to know myself.. there's alot that goes into this, I'm not the only one who has a hand in it, so scheduling others in to do their part seems often difficult. I shouldn't be longer than 2 months to have it broken in and ready for some beating. (I feel like I am being a little generous with that time frame, it technically should be shorter..), so we'll see.
Most components are assembled and much of the work will be just installing parts and tuning. But a few things like the intake manifold, oil pan and fuel system need to be finished before we can drop everything in. The motor in the picture above is just the test motor for the purpose of measuring and fabricating parts in the bay. The "built" motor is ready to be dropped in when ever we get the other parts fab'd up.
in the end we are planning on using 3 or 4 vband clamps (one in the above picture) and 2 others on the down pipe.... we had considered welding a clamp on the a/r Discharge but I think we're going to use a flange instead.