The thing about that motor..
Good point , and I definitely need to get more info re: the motor build up. See, around March of last year I needed to replace the motor. As luck would have it, I found an ad on classifieds2000 for that motor. After talking to the guy who had it, I got the motor + installation for $1200 flat. Guess he was hurting for cash at the time. It only had about 200 miles on it when I first drove it back home.
Well, about a year later I realized I really didn't know much about it, so I emailed him to see if he could tell me what had gone into it. Well, what I posted is what he could remember at that time.
As I don't know too much (yet) about motors I can only really give you my 'hands on' experience with this thing. It runs hot. Damn hot. Stop and go traffic is not much of an option at this time - though I'm working on fixing that. As far as actual driving, the 2.89 8" rear that's in it at the moment doesn't do much for stoplight to stoplight hops, but out on the highway - plant the gas to the floor and it's downright scary.

I've gotten it up around 130 or so on I5, but it was really starting to lift in the nose.