Dang,,,,I got up to the yard north of Paso Robles to see if they still had that clean Diamante engine that probably never had the heads off , I'e., never resurfaced beyond tolerances.
It's gone.
I hate thinking of doing a bunch of labor that my bodies too old for,,,slapping defective heads back on a defective shortblock.
Arg! , well for today I'll let myself feal defeated,,,tomorrow is another year.
((by the way , from what I can figure out the Dia. motor is only higher compression because the intake valve closes sooner than on the Montero cams. So the Dia. is still a noninterfenence I guess. The pistons have a different part number, maybe they are just reinforced. The bore , sroke, and displacement are the same on both engines. Cams are supposed to be marked with a G for one app. and an H for the other. I can't find either mark on my cams)).