Not sure about the post above as to what he is talking about?

I guess you could do a v8 swap if you wanted your svo to be worth nearly nothing. The swap cars on ebay bring less the the 4 cylinder stock ones.

I wouldn't build and svo v-8 for alot of reasons one of which is parts are just to hard to get ahold of. The suspension even though way ahead of the v-8 cars now isn't as good as the aftermarket offers of any of the bigger compaines. If you were really wanting handling why would you add alot of weight right over the nose?

The 2.3t are pretty popular considering they haven't made any in like 15 years. They are strong little motors that with stock pistons and rods have done well over 500rwhp. All in all not the car for the average owner, if you like something different thats cool by default then there you go.

Decent svos are between 2500-4500
Nice ones are 5000+ seen then sell for 10k when done nicely.
Those number are out the window when you're talking about comp prep svos.