Just buy one with a nice body and blown engine. Swap a JDM 7mgte or 1jz and go from there. You will blow the engine anyway, so you may as well start at that point and save some money. I had to learn the hard way.
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You need to grab ahold of that line between speed and chaos, and you need to wrestle it to the ground like a demon cobra.-Talladega Nights