wow, thanks for all the helpful advice. I live in alberta Canada, so finding another affordable car will be hard to find especially rust free with the winters we get up here. I have the inline 6 model, but hope to turn it into a V8 after I get through the mountian of work I need to do on the body. I plan to take a couple of years to do this, as this is mearly a project to get me out of the house when I need my personal space from the wifey. I used to rebuild Pontiac Fiero's, and now i'm looking foward to this new task. I hope I can pull this off!

Jesse