Lost Frost plugs

This was / is very troubling. We really have no idea what caused this to happen and I suspect, we never will.

We stopped working on the car and did something else. There is always work to be done around the house.

We discussed what was said in this thread as well of what we received in PMs. We are very please that we rec'ed many opinions. Thank you all.

If we pull the engine out, getting what we need done by graduation would be impossible. We are on too tight of a schedule. If the engine block was fu*ked, that would it it for us this year.

We felt we had nothing to lose by moving forward.

We tried to put in metal freeze plugs. Impossible due to the location of the headers. If we took the headers off the engine, there still wouldn't be any room.

We went to talk to an engine builder. He gave us 2 temp plugs and gave detailed instructions on how to install / tighten them. He then came over today ...we filled the cooling system and pressurized it to 22 pounds and left it...about a half hour later, it was still at 22 pounds. It sounds like we avoided a speeding bullet.

We are still trying to decipher the wires under the hood taking into consideration the removing of the external ballast and replacing it with one internal to the coil. I think we are almost there and I will be cutting a lot of the extraneous wiring off the harness tomorrow.

Not sure if we are out of the woods completely but Calum and I will sleep a bit better tomorrow.

Thank you again. All of you were of tremendous help to us.

Calum and Ian.