Metal shaving under spark plug cover?

[98EVOECLIPSE]

Okay so barely had my car 2 months, already having issues. I took off the spark plug cover, and underneath was metal shavings in the corners. My first impression was oh crap my engine is screwed, but I scrapped some of them off and underneath was silicone covering up a few cracks.

I drained the oil, and took the valve cover off, and there aren't any signs of the shavings anywhere... Just stuck to the silicone on top.

Anybody know if mixing metal shavings and silicone is a method of making the silicone harder to fill the cracks? I've never heard of it but it's the only explanation I can come up with. Any ideas? Am I missing something?

 

[gerardomendoza]

was it fine metal shavings of kinda big??

 

[98EVOECLIPSE]

They were pretty fine pieces. All stuck together on the outside of the silicone. But like I said they weren't anywhere else, none in the oil, and none visable under the valve cover.