Well I tore into the import motor some more today.... found a very funny looking puddle of black sludge in the #5 efi runner....



And then I found this in crap in the water pump...... I hope this is just someone setting this inlet end in the mud or something because if I find this crap in the block, I'm taking it back..... As it is, I'm going to ask the wrecking yard about it! Its odd because the inlet has got this mud crap in there but the outlet of the water pump looks like its got gear oil or something in it.....VERY STRANGE



All the intake valves got lots of crap sitting on them so I'm now almost positive I'm going to pull the head and go have a valve job done if the issue above is not a problem



And the exhaust ports look okay.... but the soot that is in the ports feels gritting and not powdering like exhaust carbon would feel like. yet another reason to just pull the head so it can be hot tanked.



Here a picture of the intake valve train. and no I didn't clean the inside of the valve cover - it looked like that when I pulled it off!



And a picture of the exhaust side valve train....



And this is pretty much how it sits right now until I can talk to the wrecking yard about the mud in the water pump!