RAT engine Options

[Ctrout]

So I'm trying to start softening my wife up to the idea of me getting a "new car". This is how it works. Her minivan will be paid off in about a year. I have been complaining to her lately about how unfair it is to me that I have the sole household income and she drives the high dollar, dealer maintained vehicle while I'm not allowed to have anything more than a beater car and a beater truck that I have to invest my own blood and sweat into to keep running. I have an F-150 that I bought for $600 and had to install a motor in and my 914 that is rough but very restorable that I got on EBay for $988 and had to make it driveable. I think that she has bought off on me spending a lot of money once her van is paid off. Last time we did this, she was o.k. with me financing a car for not more that the payment that we had previously been making on her vehicle. Her current payment is $240 a month but I think I could get her to agree to me paying up to $300 for something nice. I have two choices. I could sell my Ford and find a 2000+ 3/4 ton crew cab diesel truck or I could invest a reasonable amount of borrowed cash into my 914. I'm looking at a RAT engine and getting a fresh professionally rebuilt transmission. I really like the specs on the daily driver 2270 but I would have to get the FI to support it. that sounds like an $8500 set up by the time I'm done. For half the cost, I could keep the stock L-jet and get the 2056 stock+. What pros and cons do you all see with these choices? Talk some sense into me before I do something I'll regret. My 914 is a daily driver that will never see a race track while I own it but I love to drive it hard. I redline it several times every time I drive it.