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I guess maybe I'm a little biased, and alot nostalgic. Any vintage Mustang/Ford Muscle Car (pre 1970) deserves to have the venerable old FE under the hood. My 68 Mustang has a 428 for power and ran low 11's with only minor tuning. The combination's pretty straight forward: out of the box E-bock heads, performer RPM intake, solid lift cam, forged flat top pistons (stock replacement +.030), stock rods and crank, a few oiling system mods, and basic common sense upgrades like good rod bolts, valvetrain parts, etc. As far as cost, I built mine for around $6500. I only ran the last 3rd of the season last year but it's still together. Probably lots of opinions about durability, but if mine breaks, I'll still build another one. Besides, with the Genesis blocks nearly ready, Scat cranks on the way, and the new torker intake from Edlebrock, I can hardly wait to build a 454 stroker FE - granted, that one will definitly cost big money, but I just love the FE's