Great foundation!
Are you going auto or standard shift?
What is the intended purpose of this beastie being built?
Serious off road or driver?
Eitherway, looking forward to seeing it completed.
Those wheels are going to look sweet on a K5.
Here's how mine turned out by just painting over the factory chrome centers.
(after a couple hours with a scotch brite pad)
I like your painted ones better.