Getting the blown-up 3.2 inline-6 out of my M3 and getting the Ford 5.0 installed in its place and fired up took me 14 days. Getting from there to actually driving the car on the road took 68 days. I was out of the country for a lot of those days, but it turns out there’s still a lot of work to be done to actually get a car road worthy.
Most of this work was covered in my two “How to Integrate” posts:
But videos are fun. So here’s one covering the engine’s first fire to the point where it was almost ready to drive.