Need help with a logical plan
Just a couple of questions. Is this a numbers matching car? Is car as nice as it appears in your pics? If the answer to both of these questions is yes, you may not want to do radical changes to it, hurting its value. If you are looking for opinions on having a strong running car that isn't too wild to drive on the street, then my opinion would be to get a 360 and build it up to the power you want. Beef up your trans, get a good converter for your needs, make sure you have at least an 8 1/4 rear, 8 3/4 even better, with a mid 3.00s ratio and suregrip and pinion snubber, absolutely install frame connectors, and fit the largest tires you can in the rear. If original motor is numbers matching, save it. you can build 360 to unbeleivable HP amounts, without the extra weight of a bigblock. JMO, Mike