Anyway back to my build! My situation; I'm a student living about 4hrs away from home. So it's tough to to get time to work on the car because it's located in North Bay. I'm planning on bringing my spare motor back with me to Oshawa so I can build it during my winter/spring semester, going with my overall plan for the car. Which is:
1. Get it on the road with the 1300(FD**HE) in it (mainly because it's the only running engine atm) Plan on doing this during winter break in North Bay. 
2. Strip down, clean, repaint, 1147(FC3****HE). Do some mild and very cheap mods to it so it isn't to wimpy. Experiment and learn on this build. (Do this through spring semester in Oshawa Garage)
-For mods I've started a basic p&p nothing to crazy, just want to make the head breathe slightly better, remove casting defects, a 3 angle grind on the valves, and I'm also thinking a mild head skim, and I'll use the mkII header as I have one kicking around(price is right)
3. Swap engines because I'm afraid to flaug the 1300 as is, I have no idea the condition of the timing chain and such. Lesson learned from the benz. 4. Rebuild the 1300 as a fast road, and do some upgrades to bushings/springs/shocks thinking polybush's, 1" shorter 440's with spaxx 5. 1300 swapped back in and away i go for a bit. What I started with... 
So far here is the state of the car, as the body just got back from the painters. She's running just needs assembly. Should be done that by the end of christmas break 
The beginnings of the headwork:
Markings from gasket for exhaust ports, as i understand it I want them about 1-2mm smaller then the headers for a "reversion dam" as I understand it the ridge prevents backflow of pressure built in the exhaust to flow back into the cylinder head near the end of the exhaust stroke and at the same time, the sudden incrrease in pipe diameter creates a lower pressure in the header than in the head, which promotes exhaust scavenging out of the head. 
Casting defects to smoother out at inlet
Casting defects near valve seats
Beginning to smooth near valve seat on 2nd port from left 
For the finishing grit on the intake I'm thinking like 80 grit to promote atomization. I'm that isn't to rough and then just polish the exhaust ports as smooth as I can to try and prevent to much carbon buildup.
Questions ATM:
1. I'm thinking of mod'n the mkII header so the pipes as they come off the head as slightly longer by maybe 2", which I can cut out after the bends so I don't change the resonance. Worth while? I always have a cast manifold :S
2. How much is it worth skimming the head? It's going to be running on 89 gas and is already 9:1?
