Since your 19 years old right now, I say save your money and make her nice looking for now and just use the engine that's in it until it blows up (might as well instead of wasting it and throwing it out) and then when it blow's, throw in a 350 in there. If you don't know a lot or nothing about car's or nothing I recommend a community college and taking an auto tech class for a while because it will teach you a lot. You can still ask all questions here and most of us will help you but a class would be really good, or if you know someone that own's a shop or works on car's a lot then ask them if you can watch and be a little slave for them and you will learn a lot that way. It will take a long time to know most stuff and I don't think you can EVER learn EVERYTHING about car's unless you have tried out and worked on every single car or truck out there.... well unless you like Streets here then you might know everything. hah But yeah man a class is good to go to and you will learn lot's and know what to put in etc. I am still taking auto tech one (almost done) and going to take auto tech two and I have learned a lot in that class. There is still some that I forgot on what and how to do thing's but I will learn again and I still got lot's to learn. Well sorry for going a bit off topic but you were saying how you would like to learn more and have more questions, etc. Also welcome to the boards and good luck on the truck. Get some pic's up if you can.