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Built up the new head. New head, new valves, new valve seals, all assembled. Intake is bolted onto the head and will muscle the entire unit onto the block tomorrow and torque it down. Not keen on bolting the intake while the head is in the car so hopefully this is a good move...
Also modified the head gasket to ensure all coolant passages are open. For what ever reason, some of the passages were correct, some were merely little holes and some were non existent. Also sprayed the head gasket with permatex copper spray. Hopefully this combination will minimise any hot spots and any future head cracking.
The above tool is what I used to compress the valve springs. While it did the job, there was lots of swearing involved, and I highly recommend an alternative.
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