I'm about to head down to the shop and see how my pools of ATF on the pistons are doing. After some thought, I realized that all of the cylinders look the same, the head gasket and deck look fine and two of the cylinders had over 300 psi of compression, so I'm probably looking at a simple valve job, maybe a new exhaust valve or two...we'll see. Taking the head in to get it hot tanked today and then off to my machinist it goes.
New valve guides if needed and of course seals, should run like new. Might just take this car on a looong drive next month, I'll drive it up to Tahoe first and see how much I like it on the lonesome highway. It came from the factory with A/C, cruise control and an electric sunroof but roll-up windows.
ATF pools when I left them Saturday:
