So Frustrated!

Depends on your funds available. As has been stated, you can get a 360 or a late 80s 318 from a wrecking yard and drop it in. You may even find a mid-late 80s car (think grandma's car) with <100K on it and be able to drive it and check it out. Pull the engine, and send the rest to the scrap yard. Up here, if you haul a car into the scrap yard, you get 140$ ton for it so, you may pick up a car for 5-600$, take the engine and whatever parts you want and take the rest in and get some of your money back.