We did a quick eyeball on the engine room one night, he has about 27 inches between the towers. Don is kind of leaning toward finding a rebuildable 390 or maybe a 428 for this one. We have never played with either engine, so we know zero about them, but it looks like that will change as we do more research.

I think the 4.6 engine would make an interesting swap, and Don has a little experience with them because of the 03 Mach I he owned. I would imagine there are enough of these in wrecking yards now with AOD's behind them that one with low miles could be picked up reasonably. I bet there are harness kits to do the street rod thing with them too so you could run the fuel injection and eliminate a lot of the extra pollution stuff like cats, sensors, etc that wouldn't be needed. Dan is close to buying a Mustang GT, so we would have an engine room to measure for width, length, and to see what would be in the way.

In any event, this is one that he will be taking his time on. He has mentioned that the T bucket build wasn't as much fun as it could have been because of the short period of time we took to build it..........every night was a rush to get things done, and it really wore all of us out. This one is going to be his plaything, something he can do at a leisurely pace.

I think he is like Dan and I too in another respect, we are tired of spending money on our projects and need a little break. Right now neither of us have any desire to be doing anything on our rods, but that will change after we lick our wounds a little. We are all in that little valley you sometimes hit in a project where you just want to go off and fish or play golf or something.......anything at all except turn one more bolt on your car.

Don