I have been a Ford enthusiast for a long time. I bought my first Ford, a Mustang, a '71 Mach 1 377ci-351C Toploader, before I had a drivers license, I rebuilt almost everything in my parent's garage or on the driveway. Along the way I also picked up a '71 Mustang convertible 351C-C6. But, after I graduated from college I decided that it was time to retire the Mach 1 from daily drive status. She had helped me through many years of high school and college and she needed some time off. Besides, fuel injection is very nice in the middle of a Michigan winter. I am also not a person who can keep a car stock. On the way home from picking up my 58k mile SC, I stopped in at the local speed shop to pick up a K&N air filter for it. That was the beginning of the end of the stockness of the car. The first major modification I performed was the Cobra brake conversion. This was made even more difficult by the fact that it will not work with '92 spindles, I had to convert to '93+. The reason that I did all of this work is the stock brakes with Performance Friction pads faded severely under heavy use! So as to not make a bad situation worse, I began to assemble the parts to make the conversion, which included the rear brake conversion (bolt pattern change) and the new rims and tires. About two weeks after a 4435 mile road trip last summer '98, I was on my way to work one morning, the car began to stumble, then sitting at a light huge clouds of white smoke escaped the back of the car. I had popped both head gaskets at 72k miles! Four of the six fire rings in the gaskets had been destroyed! So I put a desperate call in to Bill Hull. He had the gaskets, studs, headers, etc. in stock and at my door step in three days! Thanks Bill! Even with all of that time the Bird was down less than 7 days. I should also mention that all work, everthing except the exhaust, has been done in the parking lot of my apartment complex (they don't like me very much!) including the water pump along the way. I have also installed many parts to enhance the performance of the SC. I fabricated my own shifter stop plate to adapt to the stock shifter, intercooler fan, custom intake pipe with K&N filter, battery relocation kit (the battery is an Optima hung upside down from where the pass side muffler used to be), a manifold and gauge combination for both rear Airlift bags, and a custom single exhaust terminated in a Borla tip. I have added a SCCoA blower outlet, Auto Specialties underdrive set, March SC overdrive, Centerforce clutch, FMS 65 mm TB, C&L 73mm Mass air meter, NAPA oversize belt tensioners and a fuel pressure gauge. Future projects include installing the MKVIII aluminium lower control arms and center section which I already have. The diff will be a Torsen with 3.27:1 gears. I am also planning some stereo work as the system is still stock except for the Sony CD changer. I have attended events with both the Midwest and Ontario branches of the SCCoA and plan to attend many more next year. I am also planning on autocrossing the SC as soon as the weather clears next spring. Current performance is a 14.81 @ 92.16 MPH on a very!! slippery track. On a better track I anticipate 14.4's, with the gears, I should be knocking on the 13 sec door. With a set of slicks and skinnies for the front I should be deep in the 13 as those big BFG T/A's in the front drag quite a bit. Not bad for a stock block, stock head, 80,000 mile car! But, I will keep true to my mission plan: As fast as possible while being daily driveable without nitrous. No trailers!