I'll bet when you get back from Cruis'in-the-Coast...........you'll be motivated!
Some "really bad'uns"   will be there(they always are)
What days you planning on being there?  We are going for a few days butt.......not taking the Mustang this year.( 'You-know-who' wants to go!
Motivation..................hmmmmmmm....Let's see.....   IF you got the new engine already built......it won't ake but a 1/2day to do the swap.  Then another couple days chasing gremlins and such. We talking a long weekend and you should be phat!
That's IF you do it all by yourself....less with hep.
Whine-knot video it and post it on the board for all us fellas to watch?! ('Specially the open header cam break-in segment!) 
It could be used as a "teaching moment"!!

I know its hot in Houston so you could wait for it to cool off a little...
  (WAIT!!! Houston and cool off CAN'T be used in the same sentence!
Maybe by Christmas  time the weather will be nicer for outdoor work..(howz that?!
Post it on YouTube and you could be famous!!!
Hang-in-there.homey......April-at-the-beach will be here afore you know it!
6sally6
How'd I do?! Motivated yet?

Like Josh said, run it for now since it has proven itself worthy of long trips.  This would allow ya more time to tinker on other projects at your own pace as time permits too.  When you’re ready to tackle the swap, you’ll know it.  We all have been there brother.

Thanks Guys !!! that’s how I am feeling I feel like I am getting lazy as for Sal on the motivational part your getting there 😂 made me laugh  that’s for sure !!! We will see What happens stay tuned my mood has been changing like crazy since I got back as for if I take it out and it won’t make the bash I do have a 2015 Gt for back up I keep my stangs 50 yrs apart lol 😂I used my restoration money and bought a  new one 4 yrs ago

Last edited by Coupedaddy (7/24/2019 3:22 PM)

There's a time for everything and you're telling yourself that it's not time yet. It's hard to take something apart when it's running well. I'm building a T5 for ours and I'm not going to put it in until I'm ready to do so. The C4 in it works fine and takes the abuse, so I'll just wait until I think it's the right time to start causing problems that I'll have to solve.

Until then I'll enjoy a nice running car, just without overdrive.

But wait!!!  There’s more!!!

You have a paid-for engine sitting there with HOW MUCH more horsepower???  And you have the tools and expertise to easily do the swap in a weekend???

Get off your butt and get out there and swap it out. You will not be rewarded with extra horsepower unless you do something besides talk about it.

If you are concerned about reliability issues, reuse the existing carb and distributor so it will make for less tuning.  If you don’t install that thing soon, it is going to rust itself together and you will never be able to use it.

Borrow a pickup, put the new engine in the back and trailer the car to my place and we will swap that thing out in a day, then hit the lake the next day.

Otherwise, just sell the new one and rely on the old wimpy one to “get you there”.

There...  motivated yet?

Works for me...
Now, get off your *** and get it ready to come down for some boating.

Personally I think the problem is mentum.  You had plenty of mentum but I think your quest for the "next most important thing" has left you in a situation where you now have less mentum than before.  So if you really think that new engine is the NMIT, you need to find a mentum source and get mo-mentum.  But be sure to get plenty because you'll probably need it to chase down all the snipes that surely will pop up when you start messing with a perfectly good and reliable coupe.....Daddy.

IMO, drive the coupe to Canyon Lakes and go boating.  Drive the coupe home and wherever else you want to drive it.  Then in April drive it to the Bash.  Then with all the mentum you'll get from that you can put the new drag engine in next summer.

BB

Yup, but that was before I somehow picked up a dose mentum. Fortunately I now have way less mentum...and I'm very careful not to become infected with mo-mentum.

Isn't there someone in Houston in need of a new engine from total lock up?  Swap your engine out and donate old one to Bolteds cause. Two birds, one stone.

Mochaman wrote:

Isn't there someone in Houston in need of a new engine from total lock up?  Swap your engine out and donate old one to Bolteds cause. Two birds, one stone.

Thanks for offering and thinking about me Ed. Al McGee made that same offer on a spare motor sitting in his garage. It would be too many changes for me to swap over to the small block, then swap back once the next one is ready.