Engine failure after oil change

Pull the oil filter, and see if it ever had any oil in it.

The down side of a solid lifter engine is that the lifters don't crap out without oil pressure.

You can pull the engine with the convertor bolted to the flex plate. The torque convertor just slips out of the transmission - you just need to roll the engine foreward an extra 3 inches or so.

Time for a nice 318.