The story, in order: 1. "Taking the car up to BC." to confirm the diagnosis (wrist pin on #5 cylinder) Which involved renting a trailer. Late May 2005
2. "Opening up the engine." Wrist pin diagnosis was confirmed. Except it was all six wrist pins (#5 was just the loudest.) The beginnings of the head disaster unfolding. Early June 2005
3. "Uh, my aching head! Where the head was found to be under-spec just about everywhere. Mid June 2005
4. "Finished!" All buttoned up. Driving home. Late June 2005
5. This page.
As promised in the last update where on the last photo I said I'd document the stuff in the box of bits, here it is. It mostly consists of valves and tappets. I don't have the wrist pin bushes or valve shims, and while I DO have the valve springs and "improper washers" pictures can't really show you much about them. I also have the valve seats, but they bet pretty banged up when they get removed from the head - hard to see what is wrong with them at that point. So mostly here are the VISIBLE bits of improper construction, overzealous grinding, and wear.
Hard to believe Classic Jaguar has this wonderful reputation if their main engine rebuild tool seems to be an angle grinder. sigh.
Sorry for the oddly stretched thumbnails... I didn't use photoshop for cropping and iPhoto decided to do some odd scaling to the smaller files. The full size images are fine.