thanks everyone and I am sure I will be asking questions hehe.
as for the book I have a few lol a manufactures manual for both my car and the donor car and this lt1/lt4 book off of amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Rebuild-Small-...7991276&sr=8-1
I think I just barley missed the december meet but hopefully I will be going to the next one dunno sbout the big january one though.