<VV> Broken valve seats

[Bill Elliott]

Ingest a valve seat at something over 6000 rpm and you'll be shocked 
what sorts of damage results to the other cylinders... gets sucked 
through the intake like a vacuum cleaner...

Bill

Clark Hartzel wrote:

>How do pieces of a broken valve seat get into other cylinders?  On the
>intake stroke the piston is sucking air into the cylinder and on the exhaust
>stroke it goes out the exhaust tube.  Sounds impossible that a piece of
>steel could be blown into another cylinder when the intake valve is closed.
>Unless it happens at the overlap period when both valves might be open a
>small amount.
>Clark Hartzel
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