Thanks for all the good advice.

The parts car has been a parts car for a while and had a lot of parts scavenged already. It has no dash, steering wheel, exhaust manifold, turbo, etc so it would take a fair bit of work to get it running well enough to really warm it up. I am curious to know how the compression would check out warm but at this point I think I might as well proceed with the swap and find out. I intend to do the work myself. It will be the first time I have done this so I am sure it will take me a while but it should be a good learning experience.

I did run though a list of parts I thought I would need for the swap. Motor & transmission mounts, engine shock, gaskets, etc… I quickly had a $450 list of parts. I like your advice Kirby about getting in there and only replacing what really needs to be done. I will check out the oil filter housing and I do plan to replace the oil pan gasket “while I’m in there”. Do you think it would be a good idea to replace the starter now even though it seems to work okay? If the compression doesn’t improve when warm then it might benefit from a strong starter.

Thanks again for the suggestions. I would not have considered taking on this project if it weren’t for the great sources of information at this site.