Can overheating damage the wet sleeves' lower seals on a Nissan VQ30DE engine?

1996 NISSAN MAXIMA
75,000 MILES
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PETERKLEINE
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Thanks to all the help I got so far, I can rephrase my first question, being more specific:

- What is the chance of overheating damaging the lower seals of the the wet sleeves of a Nissan VQ30DE engine?

It's been driven without coolant and overheated but did not shut down. After turning it off and letting it cool down, I realized vapor would come out of the exhaust at normal running temp on a warm day, so I had the heads removed.

Thank you all.
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:11 PM
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