Here is a great thing to try. This can take you and your son some time, and give you something to do together, but try this. Get yourself a book from Summit racing on "How to hotrod your small block Chevy". Get a standard autozone book on standard small block Chevy rebuilding. Call the local junk yards and look for any carbed (not a fuel injection engine) engine and find the cheapest. I would think 100-250 should be your price. Now take it home and get a cheap engine stand and put it on there. Now, with your help, and only your help, He has to be the boss......lets use the books and tear apart the engine. Once its striped take the heads and block in and get them tanked and magnafluxed. If all checks out, at your time and money allowance start a plan and start collecting parts, think of porting, start measuring. Look at my post in the SBC section and you can see the parts/machine work required to "Do it right". Now as you check out your crank, rods, pistons, heads, all the parts....decide what can be re-used and what is in need of replaceing. You can make this as cheap or as expensive as you wish. It can be a simple ring/bearing job, or a total build like I did. He will learn alot, you may learn a thing or two as well. This will be a stepping stone to someday having a career as a NHRA top fuel mechanic where he travels the US keeping his 5 second engines ready to do battle. You never know. I rebuilt my first engine at age 12, it ran.

My post is http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/sho...threadid=10799 and I give pictures and descriptions that I think are better than the books I have laying around.