Exhaust Gasket

I obtained a new exhaust gasket from Ebay, identical shape to the old one however its constructed from a sandwich of gasket rubber type material with metal cladding - Ford part #1053902

Removed the manifold and ensured the head face & manifold mounting face were clean and flat. The manifold did have one bead of weld on it which I filed off, it also had a very minor bend along its length less than 0.5mm so should be good.

Fitted gasket & manifold and re ran the engine; there was a little smoke at first but then things settled down - I think its fine now:

I ran the engine for a good 10 minutes to get eveything up to temperature; the fan kicked in about 85-90º & as it warmed up I put in some rudimentary IACV values so it will run without the laptop attached.

Minor leak from the water hose take off for the heater - tightened.

The water gauge appears to be reading low, at least different from the ECU.

Addendum, got the fuel gauge working too - it needed another 5 litres of juice in the tank and tap the tank/rock the car to unstick the float - 5 litres is showing 1/8th of a tank right now which is a little low but good enough for now.

All seems fine & ready for someone who knows what they are doing to tune it for me.