Ailing engine (Updated after teardown)

Life finally got out of the way and I was able to put the engine back together today. Everything went well until I went to start it up. I have no idea how it happened but the ECU on my Fitech system decided it was time to pack it in. Absolutely not power to it. All fuses were good so I don't know what happened to it. Luckily I still had my old ECU and I installed it and was good to go. I checked the compression pressures and they were all between 120 and 128 psi. So I guess that is the normal for my engine. It fired right up and YAAAAHOOOO, no blowby and no blue smoke out the exhaust. It looks like I caught this in time before any serious damage occurred. My wife was not impressed when I started it up with open headers though. It did sound rather nasty. lol This is the first time I ever had a head gasket blow out on me and if I learned one thing from it, it is. If you notice something abnormal about your exhaust or vapors coming out of your dipstick tube, your engine is telling you something is not right and you better investigate before something serious happens.

Jack