Beau
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I don't know the figures off my head (no pun intended) but a decent machine shop should actually be able to tell you how much they can take off.
I've got to say though Beau, from your photos that looks proper warped, not just a teeny weeny bit warped and if the photos do justice I'm afraid I'd scrap that head and go for an AMC replacement without wasting the cash on trying to get the original skimmed.
Just checked the figures, it's 0.015mm they allow. So I'm way off. But tomorrow I'll clean it up and measure it properly and check. I agree, I don't want to waste time, gasket, head bolts ect just for it to fail down the line or not work out at all. I kinda just like to experiment sometimes haha
With going with the AMC head, they seem to supply it with a 5 hole gasket. My understanding is more holes, thicker the gasket, is this true? The toyota one I just removed has two holes. With the AMC head, surely I won't need a thicker gasket as I won't be resurfacing anything. On this note, what Gasket should I get? Genuine, or is there anything better than Genuine?