[Frank Messina]

The answer to your question #142 is, the animal you seek doesn't exist. The only way to pass current smog regulations is with all the modern hardware. i.e. OEM fuel injection, computer, egr, cats, etc. All of it. Using a carburetor against current smog standards is a guaranteed fail. Buying a long block and then running around trying to acquire all the stuff required to allow it to pass smog would cost a fortune and then might not pass anyway because you didn't get something right. The most cost effective way to approach this is with a good donor that was running and registered prior to hitting that tree. You could rebuild the engine if necessary and keep everything basically stock (you could probably upgrade to Ford X heads without upsetting the smog gods) and be on your way for reasonable $$.
Frank