Hello everyone,
This is my first post, I've joined because I was hoping to find some fellow enthusiasts and after some pointers in the right direction.
I have just purchased a 1978 XC Falcon, and am a huge fan of Ford muscle cars!
It has a 6 cylinder 250 cross-flow, auto 3 speed column shift in the car, I'm pretty sure the motor is standard and only has 120k on it.
I'm wanting to know how I would get the car sounding nice and loud if this is possible without spending thousands, also would like to add a few extra HP to the car. I'm looking at putting a GS bonnet on it and was wondering how much would it would cost for a respray of a bonnet?
I have read if you put a 4 speed manual gear box in it, it would make it faster, but I want to keep the column shift. I'm also wanting to put a bench seat in the front, do these come up for sale often, and is there any other models that have a bench seat that would fit the XC Falcon without making alterations to the car?
Looking forward to hearing from all

How far do you wanna go and how much do you wanna spend.......they are money pits, eh?

To be honest don't care to much for the power I'm just looking to do it up a cruiser weekend car that looks good and sounds good thanks for the reply ,i don't want to go to far over the top otherwise id be a 351for it.

Just give the engine a freshen up, put an XF unleaded head on it ( you'll need an XD alloy head intake then....cast iron head intakes are different).....or convert the cast head to unleaded.