Hezsus
Mr. Truck
The 350 from the 97 would bold right up, im assuming you want the manual trans over any automatic, which i would probably do too. whatever you do you are looking at a tune, and for the extra cost of a 411 you can get one of those tuned.. I know if you get lucky bbperformance sometimes has them in stock, or they will tune your 2000 pcm for you as well. or lots of other people tune, i got mine done on my stock 98 computer by juston @ blackbear and now wish i would have gone with the 411. but either way it sounds like a good project.