I'm like you, I guess....have some bux to toss around and a factory-whimped car to mod. I'm looking for a place that does rear-ends, want 4.10's and will also pop for a Granatelli or Diablo to 'reset' the speedo for the gears and perhaps advance the timing to run 90+ octane as a plus...exhaust will be next, I dropped a K&N in, farted around w/intake (yep, even had that PVC 'giant homemade CAI' setup, not worth bothering, stock is fine, keeps the dirt off the filter w/the 'snorkel' and doubt any more flow really helps anyway....funny, Ford has already designed a CAI by drawing from the wheelwell...). If you have stock gears, a s/c would be stupid, as wouls nitrous. A lower gearing wouldn't stress the engine as much as 'overpowering the gears'.....right? C'mon....anything lower than 3.55 is dumb, especially since we have so much torque.