Started to take the cylinder head off and realized that some of the bottom bolts on the manifolds are inaccessible. This means they stay attached and come off with the head or the whole motor comes out. The more I looked at it the more replacing the whole motor makes sense.

The engine listed in thread 3 was still available. I called and they have had it sitting on a shelf in the wharehose for years. The car it came in was wrecked, the engine was tested and ran before being removed and placed on the shelf. The price is cheaper than the lowest estimate on the head repair, so I drove out and picked it up.

It looks better then the one in the car. It is 95% there. I'm going to pull the front cover and check the chain stretch, peering in the oil cap the cam lobes appear ok. No signs of any leakage or seaping around any gaskets. The Kompressor should be back on the road in a few weeks.