i say tell him to be daring and do it!
or do what im doing, much to the disgust of alot of people and tell him to put an 1800 16v in it, all in all including repairing my car from a cat c write off and a full shoot in stahlgrau including buying a donor car and full half leather etc, and doing everything your mate is on about its cost me under 1200 and that also includes buying porsche pcd adapters!
Woot!
Just look for bargains!