I turned on the live feed as much as I could at work last week to try and catch the Cougar running. Got to see it go twice. Love that car, it's pretty obvious from watching it run that there's plenty of horsepower on tap.
I'm not sure how far you've gotten into the suspension tuning, but from my experience, Calvert is one heck of a resource. John has his FE Fairlane and Mustang and is inherently an FE guy. When we built our '64 Fairlane we were having some troubles, he must have spent 3 or 4 hours on the phone trying to get things dialed in. The car had Mustang II front suspension and he went out of his way to have a custom adjustable front shock built the proper length for what the car needed. He went way beyond the level of help that we expected, initially just called in to see how much pre-load we should be putting on the bars. You may have done this already, but if not, definitely give him a call and I'm willing to bet he has a ton of enthusiasm for your guys' car.