micah my sympathies to your girlfriend, her family and to yourself...similar to josch my pop passed from cancer as well but it was on sept 11 2001..the nite of the terrorist attacks, so u can imagine how miserable i was but i have made great strides to get over it
anyway, i hate to do it but i have to pull out of this group buy...from the sound of it my duratec is in the process of kicking the bucket...throwing a rod is how one place described what prolly is happening...

so the good news is that i can finally begin serious plans for a 3.0 swap...now if only my money would make the same plans