Quote Originally Posted by hondachick22
the best thing to do is take it to a machine shop , the laping compound is to see were the valve is seating, but to get a true seating on the valve is to have a machine shop do a valve job
I guess lapping is like the old school way of doing it with low compression lower rpm engines but now with higher tolerance engines running up to 8k rpm cutting the seat and margins would be best.
hum but even if you get a valve job then lapped them would they not mushroom after awhile anyways??