If you have all the money to burn on that, then by all means a Chevy LS would work just fine once you rebuild that engine, find all the adapters, get it wired-in to work with the trans, brakes, fuel injection, etc. Just a $20,000 walk-in-the park/ piece of cake! Let us know when it's all done and operating flawlessly so we can congratulate you. I saw a V8 project in a builds thread getting everything the man had being thrown at it on a daily basis and still didn't have all of the bugs worked out of it a year later. too bad I can't find it again.