Sounds good guys, I appreciate the help! The reasons I will not use the 327 is because even though the previous owner said it had "probably" (were his words) 20,000 miles or less, I still dont trust what other people say and do not plan to get this car stripped, sand blasted and COMPLETELY gone through and painted and find out the motor doesn't last but a year or so on me. Also it's a 69 block and there are no mounting holes in the head for my A/C conversion and power steering conversion which I am sure can still be done but with expensive mounting brackets.
I will first get some pictures of the 350 for you and have you tell me what you think about it. I'd like to use the 350 already since I have it torn down and I will know my own cam and head setup on it. If I keep this 350 then I may just keep the heads that are on it and just put new lifters and push rods in it with a spring kit and be done. Like I said, I want a reliable daily driver out of this car and a big cam is not going to help with that and fuel mileage. As for the exhaust, it's not leaking it's just that it turnsdown under the car near the rear doors/rear end and it is a little black but mostly just raw fuel (BADLY). This was done by the PO and it's something I am changing. I dont need exhaust fumes comming back into the cab and plus it's much too loud for a daily driver.
Before we go any further, let me get those pictures posted up here sometime today with the head information and block information. Now with the deckheight how should I measure this?
As for the 327 and powerglide, I dont mind pulling it and not using it because I have a long future plan of building a T bucket in the next year or so and have been gathering parts for it for a long time. I was first going to use a 302 motor in it but I didnt have a Ford tranny for it but now I have a Chevy combo, S10 rear end, fuel cell and a bunch of other parts to get a T bucket going.
Thanks again guys!