How long is a slant?

Don't hold your breath. This is going to be a long, slow process. Got the idea this summer. The little town I live in has an informal cruise in every Friday night at the courthouse. Folks drive their whatever down and park in the square, pop the hood, and sit around until dark shooting the bull. People driving by will stop and check out whatever catches their eye and a general good time is had by all, but. There is no excitement since all that shows up is the usual collection of GM belly buttons, various Mustangs, big block B bodies (3), and a couple ho hum street rods. The hits this summer was a '53 Olds Rocket (cool) and a V8 Ranger (ratty and rusty but drew a crowd). Gonna do this purely for the freak value. I have a '97 Ranger that is a good 10 footer but the 4 banger is starting to wheeze. Thought I might do something under the hood that is different just to see the double takes when folks walk by a stock looking Ranger on Friday night. If I keep the slant pretty much stock I won't have much of a mileage penalty, if any. I've pulled 25 MPG from a Valiant and that's all I'm getting now. Since the truck is already injected, that is staying. Gonna make my own intake and headers and the exhaust is going to be easy since the truck already has a new 2 1/4" cat back with a DynoMax Super Turbo. Since we don't have inspection, the cat can totally disappear. Picked up a slant yesterday that was cast on my 18th birthday (karma?). The seller only knew that it came out of a '71 Dart but it was close and cheap. Got there and checked it out and it is a 198. The seller felt so bad that it wasn't a 225 that he threw in an auto trans from the same car complete from converter to yoke. Things are progressing well so far but I'm sure something will happen to torpedo it... :banghead: