So the N/A Coupe postmortem continued to a conclusion today.
But first I had to improvise.
I had let someone borrow my M socket set, they were returned with a broken M12 and guess which one I need to undo the head bolts?
The closest to it is my T55...
...but the fins aren't wide enough and the bit wobbles.
To remedy this I used a folded sheet of kitchen roll...
...to fill the gaps and it worked brilliantly.
So the postmortem.
Some of the head bolts weren't torqued down properly. 1, 2, 9, 10 were to spec', 5, 6, and 8 were nowhere near. 3, 4 and 7 were close enough to be okay. Water had got into cylinders two and four and where the car was sat the liners are ruined. So bad the pistons are rusted solid.
Chances are it only lost enough water to evaporate while the car was in use but filled the cylinders as she was sat. The head looks to be in fine fettle so I'll be pulling the valves out and polishing the ports before deciding what to do with it.