It lives.
On Tuesday I overnighted a new KPower waterneck, when it showed up I found that it had the wrong thread in one of the bolt holes and the temperature sensor hole recess was cut to deep to seal against. I called them and to their credit they went back, checked stock realized there'd been a machining error on the batch, and told me they'd overnight me another one.
I ended up making the "incorrect" one work since I really needed to get the car done, it wasn't too bad. A revised neck did show up today too, so I think I'm going to send it back.
I noticed they extended the water outlet, which is a nice touch since the amount of hose on it prior was pretty small.
Oh, also, love my clutch centering tool. Works way better than the plastic ones
I called the dyno shop to schedule a classing dyno this afternoon and he told me to just come in... I hadn't even gotten the car bled yet but I made it work.
Car made less power than last time (205-208whp), but ambient was like 60f higher today. I'll probably leave the car alone, no real reason to mess with anything. I do think it would give me enough room to run an A052, RE71RS, or CR-S as it sits for fun but we will see as I haven't bothered doing the math yet.
Oh, as a bonus - the new motor doesn't smoke at load lol.
All I have left to do before Arizona Motorsports Park next weekend is to figure out how to fix a bunch of the m6 undertray bolt holes and to figure out something with the shifter since I realized today it'd developed a bunch of play, which is probably what lead to the misshift.