I heard back from the machine shop. Aside from the damaged valve, they found a bent valve as well. I asked if it was the #1 cylinder, he’s going to ask his worker who disassembled it. I prepped and painted the intake this morning. I also had a new MAP sensor that I never used so I replaced it. It looked pretty gummed up so was probably ready to be cleaned or changed.
@Ian yes, I can read the hours per RPM range. I looked a couple months ago but didn’t write down the information. About 350 hrs since they were rebuilt.
The heads are finished, I’m going to pick them up on Monday. Machine shop said I had a total of 4 valves that were bad. He couldn’t tell me which heads they were from because they only found out while they were cleaning them.
With enough money one could install closed loop cooling along with aluminum heads/intake/block
When I went shopping for our 270, 1st was has to be closed cooling and 2nd was the genset. Number 2 has not paid off. I'm not sure it would be "with enough money" to get there. Would be an interesting project to look at. Two motors those does present a multiplier.
That’s why I asked about hours per RPM range. I have 800 hours on my twin 5.0 MPI’s with no major work (so far). But my hours above 3k are fairly low. I think @aero3113 runs high a lot.
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Regards,
Ian
The Third “B”
Secretary, Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club
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Regards,
Ian
The Third “B”
Secretary, Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club
https://www.rcyachtclub.com/
A minor leak in the manifolds, not enough to cause water in the oil, could cause corrosion/deterioration of the valve and or valve seat.
I thought you had gotten them as you started to hear an audible or felt a difference in performance. This could have sped up the wear of your valves.