Dan,
Where do you live? There may be people around you who would be glad to show you what they have done. I'm pretty new to a lot of this too, but there seem to be guys all over who are willing to go out of their way to help. A lot of these guys are very sharp technically.
If you join POCA, the club store offers manuals for a real good price. I see them sell on ebay all the time for more than POCA sells them for.
Ken
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