So under further inspection of what was assembled of the block I bought, I found these two things that concerned me a bit.
Here it looks like an aluminum shaving, possibly from when they put in valve guides? Like I've said earlier, I'm new to this, but this looks like it could be bad news if left as in and ran. On the other side of the engine, another valve had a similar shaving, but much much smaller.
Another oddity I noticed was that one of the spring retainers did not have any markings like the rest of the BC ones, is this anything to worry about?
