You should be just fine with some good tires and leaf springs. My car had stock leaf springs and old Mickey Thompson indy profiles with slapper bars on the springs and it ran 11.70's on spray and 12.70's on motor. Shouldn't be too hard to get that thing to hook up. I am not one of those guys who really cares about cutting these cars up if its something you want but no sense in it, if its not needed.