I'll probably be doing the same to my winter beater over the summer, maybe not rebuilding the engine, but pulling it and freshening things up (Water pump, front case, b/s elim etc). Going to try and do a manual conversion to it over the summer. She's got a great body on her, and the engine's strong so why not. Few mods (14b, 550's, MAF-T, Fuel Pump etc) to give it some pep.

I am also interested to know how much the rebuild/machine work ran you.