...without water pump provision, oil pump provision, & either no distributor provision or, better, a hole and plug.

Would be darned easy to use a electric fuel pump, dry sump oil pump, electric water pump, and maybe crank triggered ecu.

Side benefits, would be able to get to the timing gears or chain for cam adv/ret., or cam swap, and set up some kind of modern cam thrust control.

Or, a guy could ponder plugging all them holes and have it look (be)butchered.

(V8s, of course)