Is the bad valve one of the ones where the seat was changed? I had a really bad experience once with a Plymouth Roadrunner 383 when a replacement valve seat came adrift on a dyno run and wrecked a piston. It turned out that the press fit on the seat was not sufficient to hold it into place, and when it came loose it broke up into pieces in just a few cycles of the valve. We salvaged the engine, but one cylinder head got trashed and a piston with lots of custom work and special balancing had to be replaced. My fault- - - -I mis-read the micrometer by a couple of thousandths when I counterbored the hole for the replacement seat! Those mistakes can get expensive!
Jerry


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