Making power out of the 318

I’d drive the car as it is, save my money, make a wish list and collect the necessary parts as time goes on to build a billy bad *** 318 motor if that’s your dream with a goal of it being done as the budget allows. Remember it will cost about the same to build a 318 or a 360. You also talked about a transmission, you can do a basic rebuild of one for like 500 bucks and some time or you could have a shop rebuild one for 2K and a really badass one is more like 4-5k for a shop to build, or about 1500 for you to build. Think long term gain, not short term gratification when it comes to these 50 year old cars. forewarned, It never ends, it’s always working on the pile and hovering her love