Slick, my bad on the lag. I will have your answer tonight though. late. maybe early morning, haha. :p
I'm about ready to make the OEM parts order (which comprises I'm guessing 33% of the bill but 90% of the parts) The VAC Motorsports heads and new OEM/VAC oil pump is sucking most of the money out of this self-induced headache.
Oh! Speaking of VAC, I gave them
everything on this page, new. You know, so they could do their
oil pump fix happy feel good thing. Well, I got a call back and was told that the 4.6iS oil pumps are internally different than the 4.4, and they're considering options, and..... I'll get a call back. Fine by me I guess.
I also kind of want to revamp that .pdf at the beginning of the thread. More user friendly. Going to have dinner, then I'll fire up excel and start tallying things up. In the meantime, here's some pics of the latest mucking about in the garage and-not-so-much progress....