Thanks Hughes(Kracka) and Jim(TalonFiero/TalonEvo) for coming over and helping me finish prep everything for the head to go back on! I dropped off my stock head at MAP on Saturday and porting guru Bob@MAP had already started on my core. I think I got on their schedule about 5-6 weeks ago to make this happen, and through diligent pings over IM and in person visits (had to buy parts for this project as well as brakes) everything seems to have come together. Anyways, picked up my head today after work and zzzzomg it looks pretty decent! I wasn't after a super insane port job, just a nice basic one and I am quite impressed. On saturday I saw it with the valves out and now I'm kicking myself for not taking pics.
When bob disassembled my stock head he discovered that ALL BUT THREE of my valvestem seals were kaput and looked like this:
So, oil burning issue....CHECK! Nothing huge but hopefully this will solve it.
The next detail that was unexpected but very thoughtful was the EGR port plug. This will keep all exhaust gasses from reaching my intake manifold and combined with my phenolic spacer IM gasket should keep the IM nice and cool. Not a biggie with the alky but def nice on straight pump gas.
Here's the phenolic spacer (notice anything funny? I didn't until later in the evening):
And finally, some shots of the portwork. Any pics where you can see studs around the port will be on the exhaust side.
exhaust
intake
Jim cleaned the block deck since he owed me a favor and the damn punk got lucky; the block was very easy to clean, there was not much to do! Everything was nice and level, very nice except for one worry-some spot:
I'm thinking this will be sealed nice by the new gasket but still worries me slightly. This is NOT where the HG blew either time, so not sure.
Anyways, I went to bolt the IM on and realized that I had gotten a phenolic spacer for a 2G, not an evo
I chalked it up to karma telling me to not stress about the car, so we seated the new AMS/TMS L19's in place and called it a night. Head is fully assembled with my GSC beehive springs and Kelford 272's strapped in and ready to rock, exhaust mani bolted on, engine bay cleaned up. Just gotta get new gasket and bolt up the IM and drop the head back onto the block. I was hoping for as little downtime as possible, but I figure I'm still within that window, considering the changes being done.
nice! lucky man. Always nice to have help, but better when it's from somone you love... and without asking. Wow!
Picking up a water pump in the morning. Just getting all the stuff I need for doing the timing... & the cheaper I find stuff the more affordable the hks 272 look. 
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