[Thorpedo]

Going to be brutally honest here, sorry if I offend.

You want to do a swap just because of the bad stories you hear on the internet of the FA20. For every bad story there are likely many more good ones. I happen to be one of the good ones who **Knocks on wood** has autocrossed and tracked my car to death (more so the former) and has had nothing but a great experience. It seems pretty childish and narrow minded to want to do an engine swap based on the small sample of bad stories you heard.

Given what you have said you know and "what your friends have done" with the "old truck" there is NO WAY IN HELL you should even invest one more minute in researching engine swaps. You are in so far over your head you shouldn't even bother trying to swim. If your fear of the engine failing is ruining your experience with the car buy a different one and DO NOT DO ANY RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. God forbid someone have an engine failure out of the thousands upon thousands who own the car. If a small percentage have an issue they all must be junk and everyone should worry about their engines exxxxploding.

Relax and enjoy the car. The reason I am chiming in is I know where you are coming from. Being an engine builder makes me always think I hear ticks etc and I have to slap myself and remember just to enjoy the car. Nothing is going to go horribly wrong (probably) and if it does, at the end of the day all I need to do is fix it. An engine swap in your case would be doing WAYYYY more work (or more likely spending way more money as you can't do the work yourself) then you would ever have to do to have the a problem professionally repaired even if something went horribly wrong with the FA20.