I have recently aquired a 71 240, it is striped down to the bare bones and I plan on redoing pretty much the whole thing. I have an engine that came with it and it looks like it is rebuilt and ready to go. My question is if put a cam kit, header, manifold,carb,radiator and so on. I am already over the cost of what I could pick up a 5.o engine and tranny used for. How much of a headache would this become if I just made an impulsive decision and bought the motor and t5 tranny for 600, bucks? Would I get nickle and dimed to death? On stupid specailty parts like I am already looking at.

I have looked around and have found an abundanc of 5.o motors complete,headers,fuel intake,wiring,and tranny,pretty reasonalbly priced. I don't really have a paticular question just some overall advise from someone who has done something similar would be helpful in either nipping this iat the bud, or looking into it more.

 

There is an excellent article on www.zhome.com click on "modifications for more horse power" and on swapping a 5.0