The newest "building a slant six" thread

Shoots, I was going with bolt on hoping not to have to remove the head, but it sounds too important to miss! So I am going to end up with a composite gasket, so what's the consensus if how much I should take off without having to do a lot of tdc finding and cc'ing? I would like to take head off, take to shop, have it decked, take home slam together with can
While you have the head off, I would have the MS clean up the valve seats, maybe do a minor bowl clean up and definitely put new valve stem seals in.