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LOLZ. I'm pretty sure it was a combination of a bunch of different things. I took the whole dang engine apart. The gaskets were fine. The water pump o-ring looked ok, too, but I'm replacing it anyway just to be sure. There was some junk built up on the valve seats so they may not have been totally sealing, so I ported them. I got new piston rings and new gaskets. I decked the head (and had the ports flowed) and I just got the cylinders back from the honing guy on Sunday. So the engine re-build will commence within a few more days. I'm hoping to get it all together by mid December so that I can sell it to someone for Christmas, but that might be a bit of a lofty goal.
And, yes, while all of that machining was happening I was building the 2008 race bike on the side (thanks again for the seat, Alex!). Conflicting priorities for time!
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