God D@mn, I feel for you. I keep forgetting our cars' engines both crapped out the same weekend at El Toro.
This is turning into a race to see who bought the biggest turd, and it looks like you're winning since your new engine is a pile.
Dude, I am sorry to hear about this. I know how expensive these things get, and how all kinds of little things you forgot or didn't know you had to buy just magically seem to end up on your parts list.
I'm glad to hear you just decided to "fix it" like Weld. That is what I decided to do today as well, and everyone tells me I won't miss the money once I'm driving, so get driving soon. We need to find out if you have more power than Rob.
Matt
p.s. Shipka has a little 5.3 you could just throw in there.