Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck dude. that blows.

You got lucky. That could have caused some serious damage to the block or the turbo.

Yeah, reseated the 4 valves. With a torch there's no light bleed.
Engines back in. Snapped a cam shaft bolt. Got that out.

Setting timing now.

What's the compression bets?

Compression is now 47.
Back left head bolt is threaded. No wonder it came out real easy and there was oil on top of the gearbox. Previous owner was a bit shifty.

However cylinder 4 was showing 185 then cold with a bit of oil.

There goes about 18 hours. Learnt alot.. Overall quite enjoyable.

Question is do I attempt it again next weekend?

I would personally not run that head or piston. Get a long block or rebuild. Time is too valuable to screw around with janky bits.

Yeah will grab a new vvt motor this week. Have a choice of two. Both are 130k km.... 80k miles?
One is definitely a 2001. Other i'm not so sure. Should get comp numbers back today for both.

At least it will be nice to do a reroute and turbo install on a stand.

do you have something to control the VVT?

Yeah MS3.
VVT @ 128k km is hanging in the garage. Bonus is the flat top.
Extra parts are alternator / AC / Injectors i can flog to make up some of the difference.

Pulled from a porsche wrecker who claimed 193/194 compression across all 4.
Only issue was the starter was sold before i paid deposit.

Ill test compression before i do anything.
Otherwise there's a slight oil leak from vvt tube / oil pressure sensor area above where the starter was removed.