. The one last thing I still will strongly suggest is a mini starter. I guarantee your crank time will be cut in half if not more. [/quote]

I want to keep the stock look, the whole car is done stock as its a 440-6 matching numbers car. I guess its easy to swap out if you need to. [/quote]

I understand that especially if you are being judged at car shows. If it was me and just a nice driver I would run the mini and box the old one up for the day someone else buys it. I will just about bet with all the cranking that was done to it that its life is on the short side.