Oh I thought I'd kept you in the loop! My father had built a separate 351c with the hopes of finding a cool car to put it in, but, he has yet to do so. So we knew I had to pull my motor and either do a complete rebuild or get a different motor. In the meantime, instead of having the pinto just sit there hopelessly, we put his freshly built Cleveland into the car along with his 4-speed top loader. To be honest, I had nothing to do with it. He got tired of moving the car by hand and dropped the pair into the car; but I do think it's a good idea.
I know his motor was built to be relatively stock. More of a resto-job, but it was a thorough rebuild. I think crank is probably the only thing to stay stock. I only know what I can see which is Demon 750 carb and edlebrock air gap. He doesn't have the GM style distributor like mine either.
And as long as I'm being honest, my car is slowly getting built by pops while I'm at school, which upsets me. I simply don't have the room, tools, or time to work on it here. Needless to say I do what I can while i'm at home, but it's just not a number 1 priority for me right now.
I'm not even entirely sure I'll stick with my cleveland. When I get the cylinder walls checked I'll know. I've pretty much made up my mind on wanting to stroke it to the 380-390 range. But I have absolutely NO bias when it comes to who makes a motor. I would actually love, love, love to run a modern fuel injected V8. But I'm looking for 900-1000 combined hp and torque since I plan on moving this motor around to different (and much heavier) vehicles in the future. And finding a fuel injected motor that will do that, fit in the pinto, and cost less than a cleveland is damn near impossible.
And of course, I forgot to photograph the engine mounts for you. I'll ask dad to do it and send me the photos.