If you want to drive it more then 1000 miles per year you will deeply regret it. Like fatlife sad, hug amount of maintance, I had an 18 degree motor for my last one. That is the reason I sold it to a drag racer.

Sorry Deuce, when there are possible deals on parts it is hard to resisit. I do actually have some useful information. I had a friend from my circle track days convert an all aluminum SB2 from a dirt late model into a street motor. It didn't work very well. It wasn't even a good boat anchor, it wasn't heavy enough. He dropped the compression to 11:1, put a more street friendly cam in it, changed the valve springs, removed the mag in favor of and MSD, and replaced the alky carb. He had some excellent people tuning on it to no reward. It wanted RPM to make smooth power, but because of the valvetrain changes that wasn't to be. As they say "been there done that", for the kind of money he is talking while not bad for the parts you can build 500-700+hp easily. His engine is now in a drag boat somewhere. Wow I just realized the boat anchor/drag boat referance, that's mildly amusing.