72 Demon slanty-to-340 Resto
Wow that sucks. Where you located?
I'm in Texas. Here its truck country. My local boneyard is chock full of vans and pickups w magnum V8s. Of course pulling a van motor would be a *****. Out this way it would be a couple $300 hundred for a longblock minus EFI and distributor. Prob even cheaper maybe $150-$200 if you tell you dont want the heads, since stockers tend to have cracks anyways.
Do you have access to a beater 4 cylinder hatchback that gets good mileage? It may be worth the trip in gas to buy one out this way. Take a weeks vacation etc. The pick n pull yard on loop 12 in D/FW area 2.5 hours east of me has even better deals than my local yard.