I neglected to mention that I have 4 kids and basically no job, so the "budget" is very limited for this project. Fortunately I'm pretty resourceful, have good contacts and even better friends. This helps tremendously when you have very little money to play with.
This was my last "budget" engine compartment in my daily driver I did a few years ago:
I'd like to make this that nice, but I'm a bit leary of the D24 still and scared to dis-assemble everything because I'm just not familiar with it like I am the gas redblocks. That and I don't have any spare D24 parts. I'll guess we'll just have to wait and see how carried away I get.
I say I don't have a job, but I work on other people's 240's fairly regularly.
This is a 242T I'm working on right now for someone:
