My 74 Dart Swinger
Shawn I've been exactly where you are. I ended up going completely over budget on my motor project as well. It's too easy to order the "cool stuff"!
I totally agree, once you have the coin to buy the gear you think heh why not?? I can afford it and next thing ya know your dumping nearly 3K into a damn 318. The funny part is I bought mostly all cheap stuff, the engine shop had decent prices, the engine master kit was cheap so on and so fourth, $2600 is a hefty amount for a 318 yet this will have a full mandrel bent exhaust system with Edelbrock SDT mufflers, Hooker headers that I won for 83 bucks off eBay 8) and a lot of other things that were not really necessities yet I could afford it so I figured I should get it now instead of worrying about wanting to get it later when I'm broke again.
I will soon be in the military and I plan on building a very stout full roller 340 while I'm in, my dad taught me all I know so I will send him the money and tell him what to buy, I reckon after a year or so of buying and saving parts I will have a pretty sharp 340, I'll gut the 318 for the usable parts like the crank, intake, headers,ignition system-(getting that soon enough), I'll sell the crank, buy a forged crank, forged H beam rods, forged KB pistons, edelbrock aluminum 2.02 heads, a comp cams 280/280 roller cam, crane roller lifters, Crane roller rockers/adjustable push rods, a Holley or demon carb, I'll stick with my Weiand 8007 intake, it'll have a full MSD ignition, prolly 3K-3400 stall converter, a 4 speed trans and hopefully a nice 3.55 posi rear with hardened axles, I reckon that should be a peppy little engine and should only take me around 1/2 to 3/4 a year to afford it all lets see how it all goes!!
