finally got around to tearing down my 80 12A, first engine rebuild in general so be patient lol. wanted to post some pictures to see if anyone see any red flags to throwing hard and soft seals at this beauty and calling it a day, i’d like to port it as well from my understand a street port is the easiest to achieve reliability ( please correct me if wrong )

car has 35k original miles, was leaking oil out the sides of the keg, previous owner seems to have tried to jbweld the leaks lol. nothing stuck out in tear down other than the worm of gasketesk material i found in second photo? and nearly all the smaller oil control rings were not in the rotors on removal (not sure if this is unusual)

happy to share in depth pictures or video if anyone will take the time to audit them!

My car was running rough, so I decided to take the throttle off and clean it and re go through some of the adjustments I got the tps basically set and now somehow my car only starts for a second to about 900rpm and then dies and no longer wants to start, almost smells so rich that it wont fire, before it would atleast start and it had a rough idle but nothing that doesn’t need just gone through. Any help is appreciated, my o2 and afm sensor are not plugged in if that helps, but it ran before with those unplugged.

My car was running rough, so I decided to take the throttle off and clean it and re go through some of the adjustments I got the tps basically set and now somehow my car only starts for a second to about 900rpm and then dies and no longer wants to start, almost smells so rich that it wont fire, before it would atleast start and it had a rough idle but nothing that doesn’t need just gone through. Any help is appreciated, my o2 and afm sensor are not plugged in if that helps, but it ran before with those unplugged.