Don Jr,
Glad to see you starting on this one; I've always liked the '46 - '48 sedan body style. A friend of mine had one of these a few years ago. He left the beltline molding and stock door handles and on it, put smooth bumpers on it, and dechromed all the rest. It made the car look really slick. He used smoothie steel wheels painted the same color as the body (Chevy Marina blue) with baby moons and blackwall tires. It had a nice nose-down stance. I wish I had a picture to post...

I installed a Posies parallel leaf kit in a '40 Ford coupe a several years ago and it truly was a bolt-in. I seem to remember having to chisel out a couple of rivets and replace them with bolts to accommodate some of the brackets, but I could be remembering something else... Anyway, installation was a piece of cake.

The Ford engine will be nice if it doesn't give you too many headaches stuffing it in there. Have you measured the length of it and measured the engine room in the body? I haven't messed with one of the newer ones, but older 289s and 302s were almost 4 inches longer than a Chevy which necessitated recessing the firewall on some swaps. The good news is the Ford is slightly narrower that the Chevy which sometimes eases exhaust and steering clearance issues. Good luck; we'll all be watching... and commenting...