I pulled drivers side valve cover today only to find that a few of the valve springs have broken.. The piece under the retainer that covers upper part of spring...and the others are cracked...

Also inside the chrome valve covers are what looked like glued on cork material which i wasn't sure if that's nomal,, but i could see where rockers had been hitting in that location on cover..

So since i had a few Comp Cam springs here 988-1 , i removed number 5 springs and then spun the valves with a drill (lol yes) and then installed new springs and assembled..

Started car and number 5 cylinder was back alive .. whoo hooo.... So i buttoned up car and let it set for cool down of 2 hours...

On restart number 5 cyl is dead again....

Without a leak down tester , i would have to assume burnt valve ..

But if someone had put a big [censored] cam in, will the stock rockers and studs work and have valve lash correct ? - as i stated earlier that rockers showed they had been hitting inside of valve covers a tiny bit.