Stop in for a cup of coffee

Wow they are kicking *** on the 95 bride collapse, two lanes will be open next week.
This weekend. That should be a big help for me next week. Won't help me tommorrow night. I tried to tie up some loose ends after class and didn't hit the road 'till 4PM. Got in 6:50 pretty beat, even with only two areas that had reall heavy stop in go traffic. Then had to start making dinner. Doesn't work well with 7 AM reporting times.

Did pull off to mail some checks, and took a couple photos.
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Holy smokes that is pricey, you could find a couple nice motors for that price. I had no idea how pricey 273 were.
Seems about right for 2023.
My 340 from Stein was 5k in 2003.
The AMC 360 was about $2500 rebult in 2016 IIRC. And that was a decent but bottom of the barrel rebuild in a number of ways - replacing valve springs after 300 miles was not fun or worth the 'savings'.

Why not find a good running engine and put it in? a running 318 can be found well under 1k even still in a vehicle...
Why not find out whats wrong with the current engine, and go from there?