haha they wouldnt let ANY car other than my mazda 6 at my house which is why i have to keep the cars at my grandparents house, my grandpa is chill he actually used to street race (nothing serious) but he understands why i want a fast car, while my mom freaks out when i say im going to motor swap she says "DOES THAT MEAN YOU ARE GOING TO SPEED?" and tbh ive tried to sit down and talk to them and see why they dont want me to get into cars and my dads excuse is i need money for books at college. next year i AM going to a college but its a damn community college, i have a job, and i get to go free due to the missouri A+ program, but enough with the rant. i think my uncle said something like he needs the trucks brakes bled so i thought i might be able to do the brakes if he lets me use his truck (its not even his its still owned by my grandpa but he takes alot of their stuff). and for the 305 repaint, im keeping the stock, half painted half rusted look because this thing is going to be SLEEPY! haha i want to get a really quiet but good flowing exhaust just so people think im some grandma till i rip past them going 120And it sucks that your parents seem to look down on the car building hobby, most people do nowadays. But it's your parents house, your parents pay the bills, they make the rules, even if they aren't to your liking. If you really can't get a crate motor, you can just rebuild the 305. Don't go crazy, but you can just do normal hotrod stuff to it and it will run perfectly fine until you get your own place and garage space. Tear it down, mark where everything goes, put everything in Tupperware containers (not your mom's) marked with what goes where, take lots of pictures! For example when/if you take the motor out, turn it to TDC of the compression stroke on #1 and note where the dizzy is, where the vacuum advance canister is pointing to, where the rotor is. Then bore it .030 over, higher compression (aim for 9.5:1 for pump gas), bumpy cam, dual exhaust, recurve the dizzy, and away you go.