Alan Cesar
Alan Cesar Dork
5/24/13 10:15 a.m.
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Knowing we had a badly cracked valve and that every exhaust valve leaked—but none of the intake ones did—suggested to us that we had a lean mixture. High temperatures burned our valve seats and cracked one valve pretty badly, so we got a new set of valves from Supertech. Stainless steel intake valves and Inconel exhaust valves should be …

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jstein77
jstein77 SuperDork
5/24/13 12:29 p.m.

Wow, first the bottom end and now both heads? Might have been cheaper/easier to buy a reman long block? They're about $5K. Then again, hindsight is 20/20.

noddaz
noddaz GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/26/13 7:38 p.m.

Cripes.. At least you have replacements coming. Move along, nothing to see here...

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