Agree , do yourself a favor and bulletproof it while you are there . You might as well just replace all the timing belt parts again too. There is no extra labor to do that . Also close off egr system with plate or other way. There are really no particular special tools needed most of the time except the pins for cam shafts and tool to hold cam gears still while removing them. A kit for this is about $130 I think or you can rent them. The only other thing I ever used is a tool to remove injectors and probably didn't really need this.
Sir Sam is in the Denver area and he may be willing to do the work for you but haven't seen posts in a while from him you may want to email and pm him. He is the one who wrote the newbie guide.
Another thing: you referred to Casm as junkie. the newbie and junkie and Addict has to do with the number of posts that member has published on LOST.
If you decide to do this yourself and you do all the upgrades plan on it taking 30-40 hours of labor and about $2000-$2500 for parts and services such as head cleaning replacing at least exhaust valves, but after that you should have another 150-200K out of the engine with the normal maintenance.
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