Best wishes to all of my friends on here.  I always look forward to cruising the forums with my morning coffee.  This is a rare and special community!

- Bill

I looked more closely at the video.  It's pretty clear that the cams are wrong.  The base circle is way too small:



For reference, here's what actual SOHC cams should look like:



That also explains why the heads had to be clearanced for the cams.  Given this starting point, I would bet that both cams have the same profile grind, as opposed to the correct "backwards" grind on the (edited) driver's side.

Wow!  I hope you don't find any 500 lb bombs!

Oh man!  I'd say you did get away fairly lightly though.  That could have gotten a lot uglier pretty quickly 

Put another quarter in and hit the Start button!  I think most of us have been there in one form or another.  Sorry to see that un-shiny area on that pretty crank!

We also did a pair of two-valve turbocharged V-12's when I was at Ford in the early 90's.  One went into the GT-90 show car, and the other went into a tire-melting Lincoln Town Car (!!)

The engines each used a pair of T-Bird Super Coupe ECU's.  The blocks and heads were welded-up 4.6L V8 pieces, done by famous Detroit welder Chris Razor.  The cranks, cams, intakes, and exhaust (headers) were custom, and everything else was pretty much stock Modular.  Our chief engineer got the project through Corporate by calling it a "Welding Feasibility Study" 

Nice!!  I'm sure the Galaxie is shivering!!

Looks fantastic Jared!  The ink stamp is a nice detail 

I assume that was an eco protester?  Yesterday a story came out of Germany where a bunch of Just Stop Oil protesters glued themselves to the floor of a Porsche dealership showroom.  They were demanding a 100 km/hr national speed limit 

The dealership guys handled it quite well!  They ignored the idiots and just locked up the dealership for the night.  The next morning the poor victims were crying about no food and no toilets!  Imagine that - something real to complain about.

I remember when I lived in Michigan I was friends with some guys who liked to hunt on private land in the Fall.  A group of protesters found out about their hunting trip, and decided to follow them deep into the woods while banging pots and pans.  What they hadn't planned on was the hunters setting up camp in the woods that night, and it was going to be 25 deg F (-4 deg C).   The poor victims got to enjoy a night out in the open with no food