It sounded like a great idea at the time. What could go wrong? Buy a car, drive it to Florida and do this "challenge thing". Get something super reliable and comfy car to drive 2500 miles each way.
I scored, $700 for a 1997 Crown Victoria. It'll go a million miles at least. Or maybe just to the Utah border. Who would'a guessed the engine would blow up? Not me.
If you thought I scored finding a $700 Crown Vic, you're going to be totally jelly when you found out I found a 2nd Crown Vic with a "race engine" for only 200 bucks. I love America!
I guess we gotta get this engine in if we're going to hit the road. It isn't really like the guys on the T.V. show where they break down, find a spare engine in a tractor or crop duster or something like that and throw it into their broken car, and drive of to the race track. All sorts of stuff doesn't switch over on the new "old" engine. On up side, the spare engine we bought has the better P.I. intake and heads. On the down side it's going to take actual "mechanic skills" to get all the stuff on my 1997 car work with the slightly different intake. How may days til we have to head of to Florida? I better get some more beer.
