That "eh, it's just a stock block, might as well use it" piece turned out to be numero uno: 2008 Drag Pak 001, the very first drag pak engine block that was supposed to be used in the car, but apparently was not!

It's kind of cool that the first one that was cracked/junk was not the original engine the car was first built with. Maybe someone thought this one was no good or something?
I dunno. It ran fine for us. Nobody seems to know why that block was just left laying around, it'll have to remain a Mopar Mystery....but I'm glad we got to use it for awhile.

It's tucked away for safe keeping now.
And this time without any water in it