It worked out fine, though. I had a second Torino to play with, paid $200 for the thing, guy delivered it to my yard for $20, I used a lot of parts, still have a lot of parts, and sold at least $200 worth of stuff before sending the shell to be squished. I would have kept it longer and...

I had to buy an entire parts car to get the bits I needed to do the rear brakes on my Torino, which are identical to the one shown above in the rear brake diagram. The parking brake bars, the anchor plates, they all got mashed up in the centrifuge when the wheel cylinders let go at highway...

So is it built, are you picking up parts, what's the status? I would have liked to see a 400/434 stroker. TMI really has the market on 400 aftermarket parts and he's put together some absolute screamers in the last decade or so. I thought about doing just that with my tired worn-out 351M but...