Your welcome.
There's a lot of good stuff in the MTSC series. It was written mostly for the Chrysler dealership techs.

The e-bodies have a lot going for them. Structurally they've got good shape and safety features the earlier cars didn't have. Wide track, leafs angled in, fairly low CG and roll for a production car. They can be a bit nose heavy compared to a similarly powered a-body, but other than that, they're a good basis for sports driving.

Your bit of wisdom on sticking with stock is one it took me a while to discover. Starting with stock, you have a good baseline. On my Barracuda I didn't and that made things really hard as I had no good refernce pints for a long time.