[ECU PIRATE]

I feel just like I hit the lottery!!!!!!!!!Fooling around on Craigslist again while my kids are asleep, I run across an ad for someone selling a 5.7L engine 4 bolt main block for $ 40. I figure what the hell, I will see if it is still available. After playing phone and email tag with the guy for the better part of the weekend, I finally make it up there today to see it. This is after some conversations trying to get the motor and casting numbers from him.

Low and behold, he asks me what is a casting number? I figure young kid in this area, he must be into tuners.......I find out the casting number on the block is 3970010. The whole way to his house I am thinking to myself " What are the chances that this is a " 010 " & " 020 " tin / nickel content block. When I get there, to my suprise it was!!!!!!!! I couldn't pull that $ 40 bucks out of my pocket fast enough!!!!!!!!!! Get it home and look it over, seems to be alright. I see some evidence of repair as the pics will show and a few small cracks but, these could be casting flaws. Regardless, I still feel like a million bucks right now. Might have a new coffee table with this one. Just another 3970010 block in the garage to add to the collection. This one apparently came out of a 74' van or bus (block ID # V0604TKS)