RE: pre detonating problem
Your inlet and outlet cooling looks perfectly normal to me. Lots of theses engines end up in airplanes exactly like yours. I have been doing a lot of research on the 1.60 since I bought one (not yet ran). It seems that detonation is not too uncommon. If you're sure you don't have a fuel starvation problem leading to lean running, you could try to lower the compression by adding head gaskets.