Alright, guys. Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to put the stock head on the car for now, but I'm going to keep the ported head and eventually maybe get it fixed. Another thing with the ported head (which I forgot about), is that is has small cracks between some of the valves. Believe it or not, according to VW techs, some cracking is "normal" and acceptable. I'm going to have the head checked/tested to see if it's even worth fixing. I only paid 450 for the rebuild WITH the port&polish job, so if it's bad, it's not a big loss.
Alex.
