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I put vortec heads on my gen 1 alpha one mercruiser 5.7l and it ran great until it didn't. I had no compression in cylinder 4 and 8. The head gasket had blown between cylinder 4 and 6 (burn though the middle )and the valves were tuliped in cylinder 4 and 8. After a trip to the machine shop I...