I guess my question is, what is it going to take to get it finished? Perhaps some of the readers here may want to contribute time, money, parts, and/or information to the project to see it through to completion. At that point, then perhaps a rough idea of what the total cost involved was(or, what the cost should have been if things had gone smoother). For example, if it ended up costing $15k, that's going to deter a lot of folks, but if it ended up being a lot less than that, that might encourage some folks to proceed, knowing that they could build it for a "reasonable" cost (whatever that number ends up being!)

As far as Larry's website, perhaps his custom head work as shown there may give the 235/261's here some ideas.