Sorry for the tardy reply. In order:

Oldman2: Had dinner with Ed last month. He was doing okay then, but no news since about a month ago.
Techinspector1: Thanks for the input. Like DUhhh... why didn't i think of that?
Hambiskit: What is the "them" that Hillborn sells? Didn't see any NOS stuff on their site, but I can be educated. Mostly electronic ($$$) and mechanical fuel injection stuff, but no NOS parts.

Thanks, all. It's looking like fill the block solid with aluminum, run coolant only in the head. Run the NOS nozzels from inside under the intake manifold (better angle to valve) and get an EFI kit someplace (Hilborn's is $5,500+ YIKES)