[Walt Fricke]

"Part of me wants to retorque the heads and put it back in the car as-is and deal with it when I have a problem......"

That's what I'd do, and save the time and effort for the next project. But I am lazy, and your engine numbers sound pretty good to me.

I've never had a cylinder base leak, at least not enough to motivate me to do something drastic to fix it. Maybe I have had small ones, masked by larger leaks elsewhere (rocker shafts, for instance). Not to the level of drips. But there must be threads on that subject.

By the pictures, you must have cleaned it up really well.

Walt