Thank you for the great reply. Yeah, I am going to have the head planed, but just enough to make sure it is flat. Going to use new bolts as well, the special one for the alternator mount is a stud right? There is no torsion replacement for it?. Not worried about the loss of compression in terms of performance btw. Was just thinking about the consequences of the thicker gasket. Also, the intake mounting and gasket is not affected by the added thickness either?
I see where the water passage port in the head is now. I mistakenly thought it was an intake port, guess I need to learn to count before working on Land Rovers
No idea how many bolts the original Buick engine had, but I doubt Land Rover changed much.
Thank you very much. I think I'll be going for the composite ones, although the original metal ones held out 120k miles. I'll be happy if it does that again
