Black or burnt valves - What am I looking at?

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BlomC

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I opened our new beast...

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Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at please? Burnt valves or something? Can this typically be caused by wrong valve clearances?
Should I be worried? :-[

There is black marks in the throttle body venturi's at the butterfly valves - these I were able to wipe off with a cloth - greasy oily type paste...

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