Yea, Comet, I'm 18 man, my first and current car is a '73 Maverick. Got it when I was 16. $3500, 3rd owner, 58,000 original miles, the other two owners garaged it. It WAS in mint condish... That's beside the point. But trust me, between experience , research , and these folks , you will learn a lot. FAST!
Several of us have run P heads at one time or another with long tube headers and some Accel shorty plugs in the driver's side head.
Todays aftermarket heads will out flow the old cast iron 351C heads. You will be MILES ahead if you go with a out of the box AFR or Vic Jr, this is a bold on WITHOUT any mods. DON"T use the old 351C heads!!! My race team owner is a flow master, his 24/7 job is to make heads flow. Buy a nice set of in line heads from ebay SAVE yourself a lot time and money and you even go faster. My Vic Jr's 325 on the intake and 238 on the exh. 3 Stage+ port work, it can be done. As always just my .02 but I'm right on this one. Bossmav
Agree with BossMav 100%. Not only are the heads betterm but you don't have to spend 100s for custom exhaust.
The Clev/ and M heads are very heavey, take up more room, create exhaust problems, special intake has to be used, needs block and head modifications and have poor combustion chambers, need for custom pistons, plus some other needs. Definatly not material for low budgets besides not being very street friendly due to the runnner sizes.
