Need some help from you guys., replacing all new gaskets on 1.7 Options

[Hammer920]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I have dropped the engine and tranny and now have gone down as far as the piston cylienders abd heads, there were no gaskets on then at all the push rod tubes had orange silicone on the seals some were just o-rings not for the porshe itself some were some other kind of seals. I ordered a complete set from pelican parts, the 1st Question is this, when i took off the drivers side head one of the fins on cylender 4 partially broke off about 4 " of it, will that effect the cooling of it. 2nd question the pistons in cylender 2&4 and the valves are clean, the 1&3 piston heads have carbon bild up on top of the piston and valves cylender walls are smooth as a baby's butt, should I take the piston cylenders off and have them polished and cleaned or scrape off the carbon build up and put back togeather I dont have the ring compressor to put them back on. there were a lot of things that i saw that was not right or missing. any suggestions would be appreciated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

[lapuwali]

There shouldn't be any gaskets between the heads and the cylinders, so that's actually not a problem.

It looks like that engine needs a good cleaning, at least. It also sounds like you're already committed to doing a complete tear-down and rebuild, which wasn't clear in your first post. It sounded like you were prepared to simply clean things and put it back together.