Because of the LS, everybody wants 600 plus HP......problem is, more than HALF those people have never even felt HALF that. They don't know WHAT they'd be happy with, or WHAT they can and can't handle. They get this car where it can halfass drive and wrap it around a tree.
Not to mention, if they put it in something that's NOT GM, now we have the whole "gotta fab stuff" goin on. Some of THOSE will end up neglected in the back yard, because they THOUGHT they had fab skills and they did not, so now the project gets sold on the cheap.
I'm not talking about the OP in any of this, as we don't know what fab skills he may or may not have. I'm just throwing out some scenarios that we all know have happened.
I think maybe if most guys would just start with something like an old Dodge truck with a 318, hone their skills on getting it running as good as can be and getting everything on it road worthy, they'd have a lot more fun and experience on their next project. Over half their questions would already be answered and just think of all the experience they'd have from that first old truck.
