That makes a lot of sense.  I wondered about the way the intake ports

were

formed.  We have 2 12A engines one is out of the vehicle and the other is
still in an 83 body.  We just bought them recently and have not had time to
open up either.  We will be opening the one that is out of the car soon.

the

one in the car
 > runs good, and starts easily.  It smokes bad, but that is flooding

because

the carb overflows into the engine.  Stopped running it as soon as we saw
that.  Will stop the flooding change the oil and run it again. It seems to

be

a good engine the radiator is still completely full of antifreeze and it

was

full of
 > oil.
 >
 > We will probably put the one that is in the car on a test stand and see
what we can do to increase it's power in the N/A mode before looking at
hanging on a turbo.
 > We like turbo's and have several Garretts of assorted sizes and A/R's..
 >
 > Royce

Royce,

These things are really easy and cheap to rebuild.  If nothing else, while
you have it out of the car.  Tear it apart and put in new apex, oil and water
jacket seals.  Clean the Apex and side seal groves, water jacket and oil
groves, and replace any bad side seal seals or side seal springs.  If you
dont bother with the rest of the cleaning and measuring and just reuse
everything else it will cost less than $500 and take about a day for the
inexperienced.  Then it might be good for another 200k miles in a car.

Dave Leonard

 
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