Re: Does anyone know of the best and fastest way to get a poppet valve?
You could order one from boats .net and get fast shipping on it. You could probably do the same with any number of sites such as marineEngine .com but I order a lot of stuff with boats .net and it usually arrives in a reasonable amount of time (even with Snail Speed shipping).
Note: I had to leave a space between the website name and the ".com" because the iboats filter automatically deletes references to competitor's website.
Which in this case is futile, because they don't sell those kind of parts at the iBoats store (and I did check!).
BTW, you didn't say what HP motor you have but there are usually a gasket and/or a rubber seal that go with the poppet, they're cheap and unless yours are in perfect condition, it'd be a good idea to order them as well.
Both sites I mentioned have parts diagrams, have your motor's serial number available so you can look up the correct parts for your motor.
HTH...........ed