67FEfastback AH yes the noise police, another pain in the butt. Have you tryed different mufflers? I went through this up in New Hampshire years back with the cobra. 2" or 2.25" bullet mufflers where the limit for noise. Hemi mufflers work great and have good flow, Down side is weight and space they take up. You can deaden some of the sound by wrapping the headers and pipes. I have seen some crazy things done to quiet down cars. Extensions on the tail pipes point at a 45 degree down angle with 6" elbows. Sound pulses bounce off each other. Not sure if this really works.
You are not nuts, sorry for that statement. When you build a car from scratch and you have some serious money in this one, tracking it would be for parade laps only. I have been beating on my car for 15 years and this is the last year. I have had fun, run fast enough, spun out 3 times and caught fire once. I think that is everything you can do with the car except hit something. Forgot 1 change of shorts.
Any way, Enjoy. Canton pan will help, the best thing is getting a light on the dash you can see with a 25-30 psi switch if you are going to race. When my
oil gets hot and thin on long sweepers this light flickers, some guy use a alarm kit to make sure you know there is low
oil pressure. This stops from taking eyes off track and off the throttle. Last side note, if the car is in the weeds you might want to look at a skid plate to protect from front cross member to trans area. It should be aluminum plate of 3/16 and bolted. It will increase the heat under the hood and tunnel but a 4" bildge fan from the boating world and heat tubing with a fresh air scource will help and lower the tunnel temps by 20-30 degrees. Hitting the corner of the
oil pan on the track is a bad thing. They now fine you at some track for some cleanup or through you off and band you if you don't pay. Saw 7 quarts of oil on track that went about 1/3 of a mile and took 2 hours to clean, Bill was $500.00 and the guy wouldn't pay. Kicked off for life. Car and driver. Accidents happen, some tracks don't care or want to hear it. Cut the oil filter open and check for metal. Also get some man made magnets and stick them to the oil filter. Wire tie them to stay on the filter. They will pickup and hold metal partials from going back in to the motor. A company sell they magnet kits for like $50.00. This ways work good too. If you see no metal in filter, magnetic oil pan bolt, and oil pressure has not dropped when motor is hot, wouldn't worry about bearings. If pan is easy to remove than do it. Listen to the little guy on your shoulder for a problem with the car. If he says something COULD be wrong,98% of the time he is right. Others here can vouch for this.
Good Luck cruising the tracks. Rick L.