Whoa whoa whoa; you only estimate that you spent 100 hours on your swap?? That cannot possibly be true. When I was in the thick of my swap back in 2012, there were
weeks where I spent 100 hours on it. I began disassembly Saturday January 14th, and had it back together and running with the new engine and manual transmission (after the transmission swap) on Saturday May 12th, 2012. My estimate was that in that 4 months, I spent around 1000 hours working on it, and I had roughly 1000 additional hours of support from other people (friends, family, etc.). Obviously I had a lot more unknowns, also did the transmission swap which included a body frame separation, and had things like 50 hours making a flywheel, but still. 100 hours seems grossly underestimated to me.
Even after my swap was "finished," I'm sure I spent a couple hundred more hours refining things in the following months. Things like a better intake, better exhaust, wiring cleanup, part improvements, AC work, tuning, etc.
Agreed; we should definitely omit measurable empirical data and instead compare numbers based on the "buttmeter"...