wireflight, I'm with Jerry on your math skills, they seem to be a little off. I assume when you were bragging about the numbers for your 1989 SHO, you were referring to a Ford Taurus SHO. I owned a '93 Taurus SHO (first year for an automatic trans) for 10 years, damn nice car even if it did have a Yamaha built engine. My SHO must have been the new and improved version compared to yours, mine required premium octane unleaded. The only numbers that you quoted above that I could match would be the top speed, I did bury the 140 MPH speedo needle a couple of times but never had a desire to run the ¼ mile for a time slip.

BTW, if you really want a SBC that meets the requirements you've laid out, try dropping an LSx engine in.

Mike