got the floor out tonight, die grinder, pry bar, drill, jig saw and heineken, out the f'er came, not as hard as i thought, but i still have all the cleanup to do, it was/is nasty under there, just as you guys warned, here are a couple of crappy cell phone pics (the wife hid my memory card for the digital), the real dark one is all the glass that was on top of the wood....

all those light colored strips are foam, but mostly still in one piece, for now

well i was just talking to some co-workers about the moneypit and showing them the pics, told them what i needed. motor included and lets just say i no longer need a motor , one of the service advisors at the dealership has 3 sitting at his house, all runners. and i feel he gave me a major hook up on the price, early 70's motor, does run but should have a t-chain put in it, and i will replace the cam and lifters, anther co-worker said he had  a hookup on cams, so we will see. this motor with the logs from desertrat,   shit is coming together faster than i thought it would, but i am only at the beginning of the project so.....

started taking the motor apart last night to see what was there and what i had to work with, removed the intake and found a broken pushrod laying in the valley, so i started to remove the cylilnder head on that side to look at pistons and see if i could see anything, on the last damn head bolt the socket slipped under full load, well my right hand met with a spark plug which won the battle, plug punctured the top of my hand and the vein on the top right, just missing the tendon (you could see the tendon ), it bled like a stuck pig and hurt like hell.

WTF is that lump ?  Is the spark plug still under the skin ?  That hurts just looking at it !!  Dont forget to add the cost of the injury (doctor visit etc etc) to the build cost of the boat.