After assessing the damage and looking closer at all the systems, I realized how truly lucky I was to have made it home (well, almost home). The bottom end of the motor was worn out, the heads were worn out, the wiring was a mess etc. so I've started collecting parts.
The list of new parts are:
347 shortblock, Trickflow Stage 1 camshaft & roller lifters, new double roller timing set and EFI (
) timing cover, aluminum heads & roller rockers, and the related pieces to go EFI. SVE aluminum crossflow radiator and matching aluminum shroud & dual electric fans. American Autowire complete wiring harness and a Ron Francis Cobra EFI hotrod harness. And finally an EFI fuel tank for the win.
I'm waiting on the last few parts and then assembly will begin. I've pulled the motor/trans, the butchered spaghetti mess known as the wiring harness, and emptied the freshly filled (20 gallons of 93 octane ethanol free gas) for the Polaris Ranger, the mowers and a little went in the Audi.
This concludes my past month and a half with Martha.