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Old 07-09-2008, 08:58 PM   #10 (permalink)
JohnEnglish
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Date registered: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by Dr. C36 View Post
An interesting thing I noticed was the intake valves were all black but the exhaust valves were all white. I have never seen this before, I guess AMG chose different metals for the valves (usually all 4 look the same in most motors).
The are different colours becuase of the different nature of the gasses the interact with. This is pretty common on most high mileage engines.
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