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Normally, I'd agree with you about just getting a used head from most places. Buuuut.... we got this car for him because it had a blown headgasket and it was cheap and an easy head job.
Of course, the "friend" we bought it from didn't quite disclose that it also had a dying AW-71 trans. So the head's been off once (it pressure tested fine and wasn't warped the first time around) but the car continued to suffer heat-related issues that ended up forcing us to chase down and replace various culprits at various times including the tranny, the radiator, the water pump, all the hoses, putting in an intercooler, yada yada. And, unfortunately I'm not a nitwit -- I've done a couple of these stupid head gaskets on various B21/230 incarnations -- so it wasn't my overlooking anything. We finally got the running hot issue under control and whammo, it started spewing water into the exhaust man and the turbo last week and that was the last straw. Of course, some of this is attributable to a somewhat less-experienced and less-mechanically inclined operator, so damned if you do and even more damned if you try to explain why and how.
I want to find a final solution to this head that isn't going to bring any more bad (k)carma and won't require me going back into it again in a year, if you know what I mean.
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