I noticed that us (old guys ) have been around playing with our toys (pintos) and bringing them into the 21st century, as with Pintosopher with his road race street pinto and dick1172762 with years of building and writing on such matters and me racing them in the past , when we do show up at the track, any track we are the under dogs, and you know we are noticed , but we always leave our mark , I done the drag racing for quite a few years , others done the dirt track, did not like that because they beat up a good pinto, if your going to mod the car don't cut it up if you do not have too, you might want to restore it one day in the distant future , like land they do not make any more , back then when I did they were still making them , and on drag racing every 100lbs was worth 2 tenths of a second , (swiss cheesed the car) in the late 70's with a 2.3 turbo, and a fake roll cage of foam covered PVC pipe (lucky I did not roll the thing and die) had the car in the low 11's and had my fun, later reinstalled all the wiring heater and all the stock stuff and sold the car , they never knew that it was once a 11 second car, now I'm looking for gas mileage not speed with my old age, good luck to all with your projects , just don't waste the car ,