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[Henry Schmidt]

Originally Posted by brighton911

Well I'm surprised it appears it was running that way. How on earth the cylinders were cooled is a mystery to me.

Short answer: they weren't.
Turbo engines move a huge amount of oil so, the cylinder are mostly used to cool the heads.
78- 89 3.3 turbo cylinders were almost fin-less anyway, so this one ran/runs with elevated head temps. Hard to see in the short term.