Heh, got a 1983 coupe non turbo, that I paid $1 (one dollar) for, replaced the fuel line from the filter to the fuel rail, jumped her off, and drove her home. As good of a deal as that sounds, it is now sitting idle because I'm at a junction. It needs valve stem seals, so, naturally i'll pull the head for some sort of work, as it has 216k miles on it, so it will probably need guides, plane, gasket set... so then it becomes a .080 head shave, new guides, longer valves, spacing the head hardware... so that turns into a new cam... or wait, I got a p90 head sitting here...
Well, anyway, for the 1500 bucks i'd throw into the engine rebuild, now i'm considering the v8 thing... but that's a cage, and a lq9, transmission...two td06-20g's... ugh, I can't make up my mind!