For sure Pollo...if this was something you were just going to jump into and put on the street I cant blame you and your friend for staying away. In my case i'm taking 2 and making one. That gives me the chance to see which parts are best and use them for my daily. The rest will go into a semi-rolling shell that I plan to either sell as a cheap drift missile or use it as a weekend play toy for myself.
My next step is to pull a very ugly brown dash and swap in my own once I repair the cracks. I'm not sure if I can run my car without a dash or not while I'm repairing it. I'll put this question out in the technical section too. But feel free to drop a line here if you know?
-Royce