Right there with ya fellas lol. If only they werent so damm good when running.

3sc0rt, it sounds entirely possible that your mechanic sux. I would suggest always go with tests, not guesses. EG compression test, ignition lead test, etc.

Best of luck with your diagnosis.. Say, is that points ignition I see there? I would be looking seriously at that subsystem.... Nothing has given me more trouble on a pinto than the ignition. I recently spent a week of spare time, replacing everything on the RS ignition system, only to find a set of perfectly good looking points were the problem. So yeah make sure its working properly.. And consider upgrade to electronic ignition as a good option.

Not that its of any use to you now... but fwiw, if you did the headgasket between 1&2, you would really really know about it. Damm awful noise, and top speed of 70Kph limping.

electronic ignition, i picked up for 170, for a crane cams one, think they sell at speed shops for 190 or so from memory, as for fiddling around suprisingly little, any compotent person can do it, onli problem i had was my dizzy didn't have any writing on it to suggest what brand it was so i coodnt follow the intructions to find the right shutter, but with a bit of trial and error all worked first shot, sorry for the essay, hope it helps though

Yay i have the head back, was supose to have it on Friday and also put on but my cousin is a lazy mofo and didn't pick it up due to him going to the pub and forgetting to grab it. Anyways he has just dropped it off to me now. If all goes well i'll have it back in on the weekend.

Heres come pics.... Ooooo Ahhhh


Stage 4 Cam

Ohhh yeah. im going to love it, most of my mates and have commodores and SSS Peices of poo poo that they think are awsome and fast, cant wait to show them what some classic 1980 can do to them [}:)][}:)][}:)]

you might run into sealing trouble with the painted intake manifold surface

it might be alright if it's just a thin coat but it could possibly make the surface not flat, anyways i had a similar problem i used the gasket as a template and painted exactly around it, but when i put the manifold on it must have been sitting slightly on the edge of the paint and was causing an air leak, so i scraped it all off, having said that just have a few spare inlet gaskets on hand, if you run into trouble just whip it off and scrape the poo poo off, also is a pain trying to keep it outta the ports as well

Hey Hey guys, head is back on!, but ive come into some pain in the arse problems.. went to put the webbers back on and the chrome off the webber has chipped off a fair bit where the manifold goes on and it would leak if i just wacked her on, so i gotta get some liquid poo poo to seal her up or im just going to strip the chrome off to bare nothing lol... also didn't realize but the spark plugs are all Bent!... rang up a few spare part places and all they seems to know is the RS2000 2lt plugs. Does anyone know if they will fit the MK2 1980 2lt? i thought they would but i dont wanna screw around.

After the plugs are bought and the webber/manifold problem is sorted the car shall be going... next step is Dyno, ive just got to find one lol.

Manifold, where the gasket goes on.