Good grief Allen, I hope you were able to get past our babble and get something out of this very long thread that mostly Randy and I have kept up.

While there are some interesting challanges to keeping as much leg room as possible in a car, you do have to consider being able to work on it as well as admire your handiwork. I, too am tall at 6'4" and the '31 A roadster that I am building doesn't have an excess of legroom - with about a 5" recess. I have gotten mostly around this with Glide Engineering seats (now being upholstered) that are fairly thinly padded and slid back to the limits of the passenger compartment. A Ford with a short water pump is shorter then a Chebbie and is narrower by far. Where you tend to run into problems is the front oil pan sump. It can interfere at the front cross member unless you have converted to IFS. A rear sump version can be found on the later engines and usually clears the cross member without any problem. Regardless, a Ford in a Ford is the way to go and there are several rabid Fordnatics on this forum that make me look casual.

It will end up costing a bit more then a Brand "C", but in the long run, worth the aggravation.

Randy, I screwed up both of my hood sides and had to order replacements from Rootlieb yesterday - had them leaning against my trucks back bumper while cleaning the garage then backed over them - got 'em mostly straightened out but still really look nasty, and since I need to be doing other things on the car now, so, $230 delivered later ....