I've been looking through my leftover junk stash and I think I'm going to put together a small CI gas mileage motor for this thing. I got a lot of parts with this car including a 6cyl/3speed manual trans parts car and the original 283 short block that was in this car. I also have a late 80's 305 TBI engine that had a rod knock that I saved for the TBI parts and accessory drive. Plus I still have the TBI programming stuff I used when I built my Astrovan. So if the 283 is good I'm going to rebuild it with the 305 heads, TBI injection, and the manual trans set up from the parts car.

This car has 3.08 gears so that should make a good low buck setup with decent road manners.