Okay; If were going back to "square one", then it should be OHC as well, like the Pontiac 6.
How close is it to a 250/292 block?? We all know It's similar.
Finding someone to spend several hundred hours FREE is the problem. Plus the 'out of pocket' expenses needed & the time (a couple of years) too.
There's NO CHANCE till the $100k is in escrow.
It's all ecconomics.
You can take your $5,000 (cost of head) and buy a fair used car, clean it up and re-sell the same year and make a grand, perhaps more (5=6).
That same 5k would sit in escrow for at least 3 @ 4%. You do the math.......
This is why Wayne MFG and Mr. Kirby are 'burned out' on it all. The Ford guy just hasn't reached that point yet.
