Keeping up with the updates as I can. Picked up a few things over the weekend.
Leak down on the motor came back totally good. Everything was all within 5% of one another including 7 & 8. 7 had the most with 7-8% and also the tiniest bit of scoring. Nothing that deeply concerns me for a motor with 50k on it. I'll be starting the initial work of swapping - maybe this weekend after more parts make it in.
Only things I was really planning to do with the motor out is a new clutch/flywheel with input shaft and associated driveline bits, MMR head cooling mod, along with the longtubes. Besides that i'm just replacing all the gaskets with new OEM ford stuff as I transfer over from old motor to new.