When I get interesting stuff, I'm gonna post it here. Please keep in mind that I've not verified any of this, and I'm only reporting a summary of a conversation.
Yesterday a guy calls from Michigan. He has a 2002 with 350,000 on the ODM that was using "a lot of oil." He buys a used engine that came from a wrecked 2013 with 5,000 miles on it. I think he pulled the old and installed the new by himself. Now that it is running, he reports a "rhythmic noise that increases with RPMs". He also said that he'd cut the oil filter open and found aluminum particles in the filter.