I'm pretty disgusted with transmission shops right about now - well, one of 'em in particular. Because of a real butcher job of installing my transmission after the rebuild, it has taken me 12+ hours of single-handed struggling (stripped bellhousing threads, SAE over-tapped threads, pulled thread-serts, over-torqued everything except for the loose bolts, missing bolts, etc - you name it, I've seen it today) to get to this point:


Incredibly, there's no visible damage from detonation - only the head gasket blew. The cylinders here are 2-4-6, L-R and #6 was where the detonation evidence was noted. I found the third head bolt from the left (upper row) to be loose, so I guess that's where she blew:


The other side looks the same:


The valves look fine as well:



When the Diamante block is finished - and if there are no interchange issues, I might rebuild this one as a stock 3.0L and offer it for a reasonable price if anyone is interested in it.

Frank