Originally posted by Dustyn:
True,GR8svt but it was going to cost 1000 thousand in labor to drop the tranny. I could not use my credit card in that situation. I can use my credit card to get the headers. I am by far skimmping on the tranny. After it is finished it will be a mondeo level transmission. Yeah if I would have just put the bare essentials in the tranny I could have afforded to take it to the local ford dealer have them charged me 1400 in labor just to take the trans down and put it back in. Then you have to figure in the fees for letting it set on there lot for an X amount of days and then they will manage to break something on the car, maybe put some scratchs on it while their at it. In the end I am doing it myself to cut cost in labor so I can put the good stuff in the tranny clutch flywheel ETC. 
good points....there were a few that i didn't think of.
but anyway - looks like a lot of fun...believe it or not.
good luck with it all and keep taking those pics as the project goes!
