Thanks for the option. I may take you up on it. It would certainly get the car back to driveable condition more quickly. I was never sure if the 11mm engines took a different head gasket but it makes sense that they would.
I think my first step is I should pull the head off the motor and see how things look inside. I have a feeling this engine may have gotten hot since the WP was leaking and it was run low on water, leading to the HG failure presumably. If the head is warped or bores are damaged from either the overheat or from sitting with coolant in them this past year, then it's probably not worth trying to fix the engine. But maybe it'll get lucky and only need the gasket changed.
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