Don't know if anyone will return to this thread but the update on the Adsit motor and pumps etc. is that it was shipped to my indy and arrived in good shape - he said it looked "great" and that it had been blasted/painted whatever but the more important thing is that it runs "terrific" according to my indy who is 200 miles away. It is now installed with all new hoses, belts, motor mounts, water pump, brakes flushed, tranny flushed and seals, etc. new block heater, and battery (alternator had just been replaced before the timing chain broke), and i'm sending him a new radiator to install just for a WTF (he did all work before he asked if I wanted to do anything else so I got a little pissed and told him with everything else new I wanted to put in a new radiator and he said he'd go ahead and install it if I sent it to him).
Bear in mind guys that Helga had an entirely new suspension from Vogtland Springs on down to the guide rod mounts about a week before the timing chain broke last year. And I do mean every single suspension part. She even got 16"MB rims off a Phoenix SLK that some lady curbed a front right - just a scratch or two - with small spacers from H&R and sport rubber all around (just for kicks - they'll probably burn up in 5k miles, but WTF after the complete suspension rebuild). I literally cannot believe I've done this on a car I paid 800 bucks for (an an immediate 1200 worth of various and sundry) and which I purchased as a prayer of a beater to get me thru a year or two. I can't even cringe at what I've spent on her.... you guys would bust a gut laughing but I'm in RosHell NM with no mechanical skills and absolute incompetence all around.
I haven't even seen her yet. But my conservative Indy sent me an (astronomic) bill (engine and all guts pulled when he got her and he got a the new adsit to put in) and a happy email: "The engine runs well. Very, very well. We are extremely pleased and you will be too." Pic's when i get her back - probably next week if I can make it up.