Originally Posted by fast68plymouth
My .02 is....... it looks like the tip isn’t hard enough......


Agree with this. What defines "hard tip" on a ti valve? Serious question, I do not know. Is it a hardened steel tip or hardening of the ti base metal?

Dealing mostly with LS engines over the years, the photos above look exactly like LS7's I've seen where previous shop/tech omitted lash caps on the ti intake valves or mistakenly put the caps on exhaust instead of intake.

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