I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to answer my questions and offer advice so far! I have had a couple members email me about specific items in this build thread so I figured I would go back through all my old tech seeking advice posts and compile them here. Car has made quite the turn around in the last 10 months or so, should be finished with paint in another week and this thing will be hitting the drag strip in May. I will be shocked if it runs anything faster than a 9.0 in the 8th mile with the 318. I didn't want to put all my idiotic questions in this build thread for fear of it getting pulled off track. This is the first Mopar I have ever owned / built so disregard all of dumb questions along the way! Sure there will be more! Once this thing is wrapped up and "complete" I will post a shot of the spreadsheet I have been using to track costs through this process. Amazing how fast you can tie money up in one!
Thanks again, maybe these can help someone else out with their projects.