Thank you all for the kind words. I am showing all this because of this site so please send them money. I would never show all the grief it takes to do this and the mistakes that happen daily but for this place. This thread has a LONG way to go and I am slow and with trying to make a living in this economy, wife, 2 kids starting college with no money yada yada yada....I hope next year is better for I am about done and will end up working back on the turf farm which is the bottom. I started this build because the wife gave me her Mustang after 20 years as her daily driver, well worn but paid for and it's the devil I know. I have lots of parts left from the old days in the attic from other builds and now I wish I had not junked so much of them over the years but you look at something and think "I'm never going to use that or no more Fords" but here I am.
So far the pistons are 250.00, heads 250.00, cams 600.00, valves,guides, seals, gaskets, followers,bearings, clutch, flywheel, pressure plate, trans parts, rear gear, axles,brakes, exhaust=at least 3000 so bringing a 20 year old car back will be 10k which with the amount of old parts I have around is not bad compared to how much money I have spent on other cars, booze, bad decision choices with plenty of screw ups etc. I am selling my retirement for present fun, after 3 market collapses there is not much left after doing everything right for the last 40 years, grumble grumble.
I figure I will be working till I die, the master that trained me was blind and 85 years old, his whole world was under a microscope but he was hooked. It really sucks that some jobs you are better today than you have ever been and will be even better tomorrow. I gotta move to Germany but that place sucks.Thanks for reading and to BLACK54 for the idea of doing something different in a NA engine, some things are radical like 15.5 compression and some things I am not going to do even though I am in there, I want to see what kind of numbers I can get before going crazy with it, and what is truly repeatable for you to do.