2.3 NF block with MC-1 head?

[Eric_R_Kissell at whirlpool.com]

Didn't the kits to add turbos to VW GTI's using 1.8 and 2.0 liter
4-cylinder engines back in the 80's use a copper spacer with two head
gaskets to lower the compression ratio enough to use positive pressure?
Those engines ran at least 10:1 in naturally aspirated form.  I never took
the time to study these turbo kits too much, so I have no idea how much
boost they could run or how durable they could be.

Anyway, if you had access to a good machine shop you could make a spacer.
I wonder how that would work?

Eric