I'll put up my anemic 4.6 up against any n/a stock longblocked 302.

Yes the 2v's were turds from 96-98's. My friends 98 2v was putting up consistant mid 14's. I highly doubt any import was putting up those #'s around the same time. If they did, I'll guess they were high end imports. Launch, we gotta line up one day. My turd is a pretty good runner.
About Dan. I didn't want to say anything but I heard his demize(sp?) was his work. Some shops were correcting his F'ups. This was long after Joe stopped working there. Did any ever see his "custom" X-pipe? lol. -Mark