As a fellow 250 first gen owner I look forward to watching your build. Hopefully you'll stay a few steps ahead of me so I can cheat and copy off you.
Here's a pic of mine as she sits now (well... almost. I upgraded the wires recently. Smoothed out the idle quite a bit).
Same HEI. Same intake. I painted my intake Chevy orange and used a file to rub the paint off the raised letters and logo. Came out nice and easy to do.
That HEI is going to interfere with your fuel line. SHouldn't matter though with the new carb since you'll be running all new line anyway. Don't forget to remove the resister wire from the firewall to the HEI. Beyond that installation was easy. So far I've had no problems with it at all. It's big but it's a nice unit.
