While I really wanted to start the car today, discretion and the tough of potentially harming things got the better of me. I decided to wait until I get the exhaust installed next Tuesday to wait for the start up. Did not want flames shooting out of those open headers and damaging anything. Also, did not want to take a chance on damaging the exhaust valves either.
so, I worked on bleeding the hydraulic clutch, still getting tiny bubbles. So will work on that some more this weekend. Placed pieces of leftover hose around
oil lines where they were close to metal, and at Blas' suggestion installed some heat shield over the fuel line near the header.
I also re-installed the heat shields under the car and a few other minor things. I will need to find a couple of people this weekend to help me get the hood back on.
Jim