It'd be a cool project but there is way more involved than you think. I'd go part searching if I were you, then when you think you know how much it will cost, double it. That's what happend to my build. It started off at around $3k-$5k of my deployment money. So far I have a little over $3k in parts already, and according to my spreadsheet ( has all part numbers and prices) I have about $10k left. Yea so started out as 3k now its at 13k. That's how it goes. If you wanna just give it some pep. I'd say get a 5.3 or 6.0 do a set of 243 heads, and a cam swap and run it carbed. Super easy, probably make 400+ at the wheels and would get decent MPG's. Just my .02