[Speedfreak]

Originally Posted by niterydr

Honestly I'd replace all pistons and have rods checked, at a minimum #3 and #2.

Originally Posted by Mark Leasure

Sorry to hear. Looks to me like a set of shelf stock HD2's, rod bearings, and a fresh set of valves. If the cylinder walls look good, you could do it like drop ins.

Originally Posted by scheides

Racing, practice, whatever. I paid cash for the car and have good health insurance

More appropriate update:

Head is salvagable! Not only that but it'll be cheap to fix! $725 max. The machine shop said that they might have some used valves they can use from doing upgrades in the past OR they could just do +1mm valves in the car. I opted to KISS on this one since it's an IX and there's a lot more that can be done to add power before I start throwing extra money into headwork. Should be done mid next week.

Now I just need to grow a set of balls and figure out how to successfully replace the piston in cyl3....it really needs to go.

You checking/changing the bearings? I would. Also would replace all pistons and check rods as quoted above. Specially if selling the car.