Newbie time, let the dumb questions begin Options

[JThw8]

Greetings. Newb here.
Ok, so Im a car-a-holic. Specializing in, but not limited to Aircooled VWs and italian nightmares (fiat, lancia, alfa)
I do alot of autocrossing and generally enjoy the build more than the drive so once I finish setup on a car its usually time to start something new.

Thus when I completed my latest project, Yugo (dont laugh, it was better than expected and with my co driver running it took EPrepared 2 years in a row locally)
(IMG:http://www.misfittoysracing.com/Yugo/images/sep2006/ds34.jpg)
I sold it and started the hunt for a new project. I wanted to go aircooled again and happened across a 73 914 locally. Pretty clean little car for the northeast. 1.7 runs well but it needs a repaint terribly (not an issue since I do my own paint) and some other tweaks.

Unlike past projects I dont intend to butcher this one, I do respect the little 914 and would like to keep it as original as I can with some minor performance upgrades.

Sadly the FI was removed long ago and it has a single weber progressive on it for now. I would like to at least go to duals sometime down the road.

Another local car club member has also given me a nice deal on a "garage cleanout" of all his old 914 parts. In that package is a new, unused, 2.0 counterbalanced crank, rods and bearings. A spare 1.7 case and rotating assembly, and a set of 76 2.0 heads.

Obviously I would like to put together a 2.0 on a budget (sorry, tight budgets around here) So Im going to be looking for the best way to utilize those parts down the road. I've researched enough to realize I will need to get a decent cam to work with the carbs too.

I will be looking for all the advice I can get but for now I just want to say hello and I will try not to bombard the boards with questions until I do some research first.

Jim