info for 72 Valiant /6 for road racing

I thought I would give you guys a little update on our quest to road race the 72 Valiant.

We picked up a 2 BBl carb and Aluminum manifold for $100 from a guy in Gilroy.

Picked up a free 225 engine and auto transmission from a guy out in Tracy, CA, it ran although not well. The engine has the head off, is missing the rockers tube, rockers and pushrods, and has a damage pistion in #3 cyl. The pistion is missing a small section of the top, so we can see the top ring. like a 3/4" x 3/16" long chip out along the edge.
This will be a back up engine and trans. So we need a couple of the spark plug tubes, push rods, rocker arms, and the rocker tube and caps and one replacement Piston. (free? or cheap?? we'll pay shipping)

Pick up E250 rear leaf springs from the JY for $90 set, and we are currently working combinations of flipping one or two of the leafs to flatten the pack. When engaging all of the leafs these are roughly 500 lbs/in rate springs. They fit into the existing mounts/shackles with a few minor mods (bigger hole and modified bushings).

We are working on a cheap modification to the front torsion bars, and have a $20 set of SB V8 bars as a back up.

Got a rear sway bar mount kit for $60. and It looks like one of my excess (free) Datsun 510 front 20 or 25mm sway bars will work on the rear.

Still working on finding a big sway bar for the front in the JY or friends garages (Take-off from some other car).

Picked up the front spindle brake assemblies from a late 70's Plymouth Gran fury!!! 12" of ventilated brakes ($150) Brakes are "safety"and thus not part of the $500, unless you slap on something new and fancy like 12" Willwoods). we are going to send out the front and rear pads to Hawk or Carbotech for new pad material.

We will probably get 5x4 to 5x4.5" wheel adapters for the rear axle so we can run the same sized tire, but that will probably mean getting FWD wheels for the rear and normal offset wheels for the front. We are looking at 16x8 or 16x7, or maybe 15x8 / 15x7. Ford wheels should work.