[thekovac]

Huge thanks to the two of you for your help! Extra special shout out to GTLEGEND who is what his name says; legend, and sent some photo copies of the pages I need.

The information about the 8v B5 engine in the WF festiva was helpful too.
I found a literal photo-copy (as in someone took photos of each page!) of a UK edition Haynes manual that included information about the 1.5L 8v B5 - albiet carby version. Turns out while I knew the b5 is a super common engine, I didn't realise the 8 valve EFI version only existed in the WF festiva, and the 8 valve carby version is fairly rare to find as well.

I actually went to a few local libraries to find service manuals as well, but the exact one I needed was on loan for 6 weeks!!

Changed the old valve stem seals and le old festiva is back in action with much less smoke and oil not being completely used up in less than 2000kms. I was able to do the job without taking the head off, but it took a good few hours of ****-farting around with a valve spring compressor and shoving 2m of rope into the combustion chamber.