RE: burned valves...

["Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>]

an ominously accurate description of my Giulia Super....

nk

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> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:15:15 -0500
> From: "Watry, Andrew (LNG-SFR)" <Andrew.Watry@domain.elided>
> Subject: what burned valve looks like
> 
SNIP
> 
> This car failed its 1995 Calif. smog check because of this valve.  After
> a valve job it ran well, and cleanly.  Symptoms were very low compression
> on this cylinder plus a chuffy exhaust note that wasn't what Alfas
> normally sound like. At speed the car felt OK, but at idle and low RPM it
> was rough and lopey.  I hear from Norman Racing that it is common for
> slightly burned valves to feel and work basically OK at high RPM, but not
> at low, when things are happening slowly and the cylinder is filled and
> pressurized slowly.
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