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Originally Posted by NWFRS

Even if I had a year of leisure and a fully equipped shop I wouldn't attempt it. I've been a metal fabricator, machinist, Tig, MiG, robotic weld-cell technician, finisher, fixture-builder, electrical assembler and theory, layout, hydraulics, pneumatics, R&D, etc, for the last seventeen years. The longer I'm in the industry the more aware I become of the potential technical challenges and expense. I might have phrased your question the same way fifteen years ago when I was full of optimism. Having been down that road before my advice is don't do it. Move forward with your career, make bank, and pay for someone else's project when you find one you like. The kind of project you're proposing will suck the life out of you if you're here asking that kind of question.

There are thousands of these "easy" swap projects for just about any car imaginable sitting behind garages covered with tarps for every completed one.