UPDATE
I am here at Alans, after looking over all my parts and realizing that WE ARE STILL MISSING STUFF, and ordered what i was missing we got started. The auto trans is out, looking at the crank, suprise suprise, Alan was correct again and the HP crank was already drilled for a 4 speed and fits the bushing. Alan has the handy dandy pilot bushing installer there and ready to go and is pulling the flex plate as we type to install that bushing. I am looking at this really optimistically and thinking only good thoughts.
I have been taking lots of pictures and will post them up later. for now, back to