We should all just throw everything we own in the dumpster and start building 500” fuel Hemis. Everything else is just a waste of time.......
To OP, I say slam that thing together on the cheap with what you got on hand. Let the boy cut his teeth in it and then he can spend his coin on it however he likes. If we spent as much time wrenching as we do overthinking these things, there’d be a lot more hot rods running the streets.