I'll be curious to see what you do for paint, rattle can or spray gun, and what all will get color. I'm pre paint currently, trying to figure out what to do for the heads, if I want to leave them natural, paint them aluminum, or paint the orange. Same with the front cover.
I'm planning on using Ditzler/PPG Urethane Hemi Orange (without gold metallic) paint (sprayed with a gun obviously) that I already have.
I'm planning on painting pretty much everything but the valve covers. I may skip painting the oil pan though, undecided on that yet.
Other than the heads, most of the aluminum stuff has enough wear/tarnish that I thing it will look better painted.
As far as the other question posed, If it's in the ballpark of a 6.4 the wife will be happy.
It's still going to see life in nice weather as her daily driver so she didn't want to go radical with it.
As long as she can do bigger smoky burnouts with it she'll be happy.
