[Raptor]

Your probably not going to like this answer, but it is the truth, accept it or not. The only real way to learn this stuff is by doing, preferrably with some guidance from someone with experience. You can pick a lot of it up over the net reading and in books etc, but the fact is, most people don't comprehend exactly how it should be done from reading. I started building bike engines 25 years ago with friends in my garage. I got lucky enough somehow and they ran fine, after that, I spent a lot of time watching and reading for the first few v8's. Since then it has been 20 years of digging info out of every one decent with a wrench, reading every possible bit of info on it and sharing info with fellow engine builders. If you seriously want to learn, it would be worth paying someone with experience to go through yours with you. Or at least see if you can watch them build one. The education will be worth every penny. Ask lots of questions and take notes.

Last comment. As mentioned above, give respect to get it. If you want people to care about your requests for info etc, show enough respect to care about their requests to simply follow their rules. You care about what your asking, Allan cares that his site doesn't look like most of the other annoying car sites out there.