I took the car for a ride last night and it really caught me off guard. Night and day over the 408. I'm looking forward to making some passes next Saturday.

When I drove the car with this motor and the 4 speed the throttle was like an on/off burnout switch. With the auto it definately will help hook the car up.

As for the manifold, I did some hand porting & gasket matching but its tough to get in there.

I do have a second manifold that I mounted in a bridgeport and milled away all the runners underneath. The idea is to fabricate a steel single plane runner system on the lower level of the dual plan and braze it in place and contour with epoxy. Granted, its less than ideal and with no testing equipment other than track time after the swap its really shooting from the hip but think I can eliminate some 90 degree bends in the stock dual plane and definately remove some pig iron weight too.