and another idea,

maybe its a cracked manifold, apparently they are not too uncommon

This just in.

Compression tested.

It's a blown head gasket!

It isn't something that I can't live with for another month until my rego runs out. Then I fix it in one month and re register it in Janurary.
Meaning that I then wont have to have a "Baby Poo Brown" 2004 ACT rego sticker and will get a 2005 one.

Anything I shoudl get done while the head is off?
shaved
porting
???

Probably not a bad idea to get the head crack tested too.

I just put a pony in an express post envelope and it's on it's way to kegs place for being the first person to think of the head.

PS. The pony's name is "Freedom"
PPS. Ohyeah to fit it in the envelope I had to use a blender so don't open while wearing white clothes...

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There can't be too many cracked manifolds left. You seem to have cornered the market on them
Chris

i made a big discovery today, the inlet i had when i tired to see if the (what i thought was) a-15 manifold would fit with the turbo setup exhaust manifold did not have water galleries (i think it may be an a-14 manifold or something), where the vanette a-15 one i got today has water galleries, and the actual inlet kinks up from the flange (at head) to make room for the water gallery

what im thinking is if i cut the water gallery off one of these vanette inlets it should give me just enough clearance to use the original turbo manifold design on an a-15

which makes life cheap!