Originally posted by procyon:
BradSVT, you only need the 2001+ level LH head to get the rear water pump setup. The RH head is fine how it is.



Ya I need to find one of those. Buckshot has one I can buy off of him.

Update:
I gave the place the �01 Taurus VIN# and they still told me it�s the same engine from �00-�03. But it looks like they might take the engine back for a full refund and not the 25% restocking fee they told me before.

The problem is that if I return it, I don�t have an engine for this swap and there are a limited number of good engines on the west coast. I have been looking for an engine under 20k preferably around 10k and this engine was supposed to be 11k.

It was $538 and $50 bucks of gas. It will be another 7 �½ hours of driving and another $50 to return it. That brings the total from -$588 to -$100 from the driving. If I just go with getting new heads from Buckshot I will be running around -$688 then the price of gas from the first trip, so up to -$738.

I called a place for another engine today. It�s in Arizona and the engine is a �02 Taurus with 6k on it. It is $550 with core deposit and $150 to ship it to me. That brings that total to $700.

Not sure really what I should do�

I still need to either try, or pay for someone to do the port matching for my SVT UIM.

3L process done