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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 03:03 PM
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just looking at the pictures of the face, and the valve seats are being ground into it looks like
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 03:05 PM
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does look that way, hard to tell on that picture though TBH
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 03:07 PM
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Im not an engineer but surely the valve seats shouldnt be on the cylinder face?
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 03:10 PM
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deffo skimmed too much
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MK5RST
Im not an engineer but surely the valve seats shouldnt be on the cylinder face?
what i thought!!! maybe let the gases out/in quicker though
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by peteh
Originally Posted by MK5RST
Im not an engineer but surely the valve seats shouldnt be on the cylinder face?
what i thought!!! maybe let the gases out/in quicker though
Ask him if its a performance enhancing feature or does he just have shares in head gasgets
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