The ROM tower is an extra circuit board located between the rom sockets and the kickstart roms. BBOAH has a picture of one: http://bboah.claunia.com/rom_tower.jpg
1.4 kickstart and super kickstart disks where used for a long time, my A3000 has a Rev.9 motherboard and came with the 1.4 kickstart...
If you use a “full” 68060 (with FPU) you need a patched exec, i.e. burn your own custom kickstart. And you do want a full 68060.
If you use a 68LC060 or 68EC060 (no FPU) you don't need a custom kickstart rom, but the lack of FPU will hurt. There are programs that simply assume that a FPU is...
If you look at the pictures and instructions in the A1k thread you can see that most build the bottom most layer using loose pins (taken from pin-strips or 040-sockets): http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.php?p=644306&postcount=188
That seems like the best solution to me, albeit a quite labor...
Selling my Repulse 24-bit soundcard. It's in perfect working order and comes with driver floppy and CD.
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/repulse
Price: 160€ + shipping. Payment via PayPal as gift (or buyer pays fees).
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