My 1st thought was to mill down the cam area in the VVT block and plug any oil passage that I encounter, problem with that theory is there are water passages in in the VVT block that would be in the path of the area that needs to be milled.

I think(just a theory here) that a VVT block could be machined for a cam roller bearing and that might be a work around for deleting the VVT system.....but would it be coast prohibitive ?