The slant or the 318

I'd build the slant. I think the OP decided the same too before the 2nd page was even started. Bill's beginning posts were very informative to me (non-slant educated) and probably many others. He pin-pointed the slants strengths and n/a limitations very effectively. 805kid I love the S/S slant Dart you've got I imagine there's a lot of WTF responses when you pop the hood.

Thanks for the kind words. The moderators here thought enough of them to delete them.

I'm glad somebody got some useful information before they made them unavailable.