Water pump and bellhousing
An adapter plate is commercially available (Jim Carter, Old Chevy Truck parts) to mount a post 1941 style 216/235 water pump (two holes in the rear cover plate) onto later style 235 (like 261) blocks, the ones with the pump internal to the block instead of externally spanning the block to head joint. This is shorter fore and aft and mounts the fan higher to keep the fan better centered on the radiator.
For the bellhousing, I'm sure that you are remembering that CMPs are right hand drive and that most of the available engines had left hand drive setups. The clutch fork is the difference and although Phil Waterman has converted a LHD bellhousing to RHD your life will be so much easier if you can stay with the original.
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