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Admittedly, I skipped through the whole thread, meaning this may have already been covered… but OP, you could achieve what you are trying to do without too much work.. if you have a lot of time and a little money, it would b interesting to try. Some people have mentioned that their cars lacked power pretty badly when they were missing, though they still have compression strokes and valvetrain loss being wasted.
You would be best off working with the outer two cylinders to help with vibrations and to keep cyl#1 TDC as a reference. You could strip the rods and pistons from the center cylinders but you would then need to drill the oiling holes on the crankshaft and tap them for an NPT plug. It would be a good idea to neutral balance the crankshaft after this. From there, you could pull the valves and springs on those cylinders, again drilling and tapping the holes from the valves for plugs. Take the intake and exhaust manifold gaskets and cut out steel spacers without openings for the center cylinders and then use two gaskets… You could then just unplug the injectors and coils (or wires) for the center cylinders. Without the dud compression strokes, power wouldn't be so bad and the idle would be much improved.
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