Not sure what you mean here if 1mm or so needs to come off then I think it will be fine. If geomtry is affected there are remflex gaskets that are thicker and apparently are quite decent. I would be using the MLS gasket that is just for a template I will use copper or graphite which is more compliant I believe.Is there enough room to have an adapter plate between the head and the manifold after milling the manifold flanges flat ?
Not sure what you mean here if 1mm or so needs to come off then I think it will be fine. If geomtry is affected there are remflex gaskets that are thicker and apparently are quite decent. I would be using the MLS gasket that is just for a template I will use copper or graphite which is more compliant I believe.
at that point , its little more effort to start again ,,, is it really that rare ??Get a nice thick section bit of box section and space holding studs on it as per head spacings for a jig. You may get away with running some weld across the outer side of the right tube to pull the flange out, but if you haven't matched the flanges to tubes which it looks like they aren't I'd cut the flanges off and re-weld the lot
@stuvy no other welding done or required on the car.
Not sure what you mean stand turbo remotely?
Can't you fit a standard, non turbo, manifold pro tem just to get the car running ?cannot get spare head I did try but they are a rare engine and warned the guy who was doing it to bolt it to something but he didnt :-( I said even if it was 2 bits of box section with cross members it may have just needed milling a bit after. Now I am in ****e creek. He tried to clamp it when it was cooling after he realised the mistake but too late by that point. Bloody car is in the way of something else now as well and need to get one off the road as it is not on sorn. I am in a right mess.
Can't you fit a standard, non turbo, manifold pro tem just to get the car running ?