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Re: Preignition and other Ghost Stories
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 3/21/2014

Your pics of the cylinder head do not depict preignition damage. They depict an old Ford Split Port engine that dropped a valve seat somewhere in it's history. I have seen this a few times. What you saw is the end result of a wedge of hardened valve seat imita... Login to read more.