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 ?
I looked at this 5 years ago and went thru every scenario you mentioned to modifying the block and it's not worth it. The cooling passages get in the way. It would be a mess.
