'75 Porsche 914 Trials and Tribulations

So I came across an old '75 Porsche 914 1.8, I figured I'd try and assemble a few collections of pictures as I tried to get the thing put back together enough to get it on the road, with the long term goal being a Subaru EJ20/255/257 swap. Here it is as it came off the trailer, covered in dust, dirt, bird poop, and all in all looking sad.

First step was to give it a ~very~ light pressure washing, the seals around the Targa Top were worn and the windshield isn't even secured in place. Here it's sitting open, airing out the bit of water that did make it in. The original color was red and the previous owner had decided to give it a gold top coat.

The drive train was separate so first step was to pull the intake, exhaust, and the shrouds off to make sure the engine wasn't a ticking timebomb waiting to overheat. This is the 1.8L flat 4 motor with air cooling, and one of the heads already removed, showing the modular cylinders.

Just checking out the pistons in the bores, making sure that there was nothing catastrophic wrong with i-...wait a minute, what's that?

That deep gouge in the bottom right, what happened there? Did one of the valves hit it? It's a push-rod engine so there's no way it could be a broken timing belt, let's take a look at the head to see what could have ha-...

Oh...oh no...

OHHHH NOOOOOOO...One of the valve seats fell out and was just bouncing around behind the valve, smashed up the aluminum head and punched a dent in the piston...dammit, time to round up a new head...that was it for this weekend, just familiarizing myself with the vehicle and what it needs. 10/19/2014.