Man, that is a great ranch score and a cool project you got going on. Very nice work and good taste with your resurrection style and choice of components. There are so many idiots around these days that would have just hacked up a perfectly restorable truck and made a truggie out of it or something stupid. Wish you lived closer and I would be over there playing trucks with you.
I hear you on the heat lately. I was trying to work through some fine ECM tuning calibrations Saturday to finish up my 8.1L swap while it was a 108 degrees in my garage. My laptop got so hot it finally shut itself down. Come January we will wish for those 100 degree days again.