Nice project. It's good to see people building American V8 cars rather than rice rockets. If you can count the number of cylinders on one hand....it is NOT a race car.
I'm trying to work out a 5-speed swap for my Dart (sorry, I'm mostly a Mopar guy but I like all Iron
).....but I don't have the cash. There was a '83 GT 5.0/5speed in a yard near me but the tranny was LONG gone. With an adaptor plate those can fit just about anything...