I am caught in a bad situation and need knowledge and maybe even help sourcing a head. My parents decided to help my brother and his family and bought a 1992 e34 non vanos 525i touring and when dad brought it home I thought with some tlc it would be a great car for them. It has 186000 miles on it and drove home almost 200 miles and all seemed good. Couple days later and less than 10 additional hours the head gasket went. We took the head off with no visible issues other then oil and coolant in the head, none on the dipstick though. So with no visible issues we decided to get it pressure tested and see if its good. Its not! Cracked head at one of the coolant ports.
We are going to replace the head because of how deep we are in now. My research has lead me to believe I can get a vanos head and remove the vanos unit and I'm good, also reading that I may need to swap cams and other internals. Does anybody here have ANY information on this subject? If anyone has another idea (other than s5- swap or junking the car) please feel free to chime in. Tia
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