Roughly a month has passed and I've made less progress than I would have hoped for. Below is a photo dump. Looking at all of them now I guess I've done some things...
Made a trashy bracket from scrap aluminum out of the CDI:
Mounted and wired the CDI pedal. Also OBDII.
Fuel filter and pump mounting. Still need to order/build AN lines.
Intake pipe modified. (No I can't TIG weld aluminum) Had a welding service do this. I did remove and clean up the inside restriction on that pipe.
Then I decided the transmission needed to move up in the tunnel about an inch.
It might require some additional slight modifications with a BFH or bottle jack.
Things appear to line up nicely if I shoot a straight line from the output shaft to the pinion on the diff.
I also designed some engine mount adapter plates and placed another order with send cut send. I cant wait to put the engine hoist away and close the hood.