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Post by ca on Mar 17, 2008 11:14:33 GMT -5
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Post by ca on Mar 17, 2008 11:18:53 GMT -5
oh yeah,Thayne, you are right in your assessment ;D
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Post by ca on Mar 17, 2008 11:47:22 GMT -5
DAN, them covers that you are talkin about are stock height. will them extra tick gaskets do the trick? why don't you break out them mad fabricatin skills that yur acquirin and make yurself some spacers? a template, some aluminum plate cut into strips and a welder. then you can hear " that won't work, they'll leak". to which you can answer " they don't leak, cause i made'em" course it won't be easy ;D
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Post by 60sFordGuy on Mar 17, 2008 11:58:28 GMT -5
CA, Thanks again, but I just reread my "assessment", and it should have read "PCV on PASSENGER side to carb base/intake, and VC Filter on Driver side valve covers", which would preclude the need for a hose to the air filter on the carb, and retaining the "filtered" cap on the oil tube. After I put in new valve stem seals, I haven't experienced any smoke, just oil spray coming from the cap on the oil tube. Hopefully the setup which I have described will eliminate the oil spray. It seems to me that this may improve performance as well.
Thayne
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Post by ca on Mar 17, 2008 12:55:38 GMT -5
i didn't notice the driver/driver thing till you said that
the setup i have now draws through the oil filler tube and the PCV comes off the back of the block to the carb base and i still get oil vapor comin out of the vented cap and collecting in the area. the rings and oil seals are good and fairly new(less than 10 thousand miles) so that is the reason that i plan to change to the air filter base and am going to change to a newer style PCV valve with a little better metering.
if i read you right- are you planning on drawing fresh air through the valve cover as well as the oil filler tube? i would do one or the other but not both - just my opinion
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Post by Meteorgirl on Mar 17, 2008 14:56:11 GMT -5
I JUST REALIZED WHY HE HAS OIL SPRAY STILL EVEN WITH NEW SEALS!!
He has an aftermarket aluminum intake on the engine which means the motor no longer has the ROAD DRAFT TUBE on the back of the ontake to vent the oil vapor down to the ground.
Only one way in & out right now, the oil breather cap!
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Post by 60sFordGuy on Mar 17, 2008 15:17:20 GMT -5
When I changed over to the aluminum intake, the "original" PCV was routed from the back of the 2V carb, down (90* angle), into the 260 intake manifold. It was actually 100% plugged when I removed it. I modified the routing to go from the carb to a PCV valve that I installed into the back of the passenger valve cover. I'm not aware of any road draft tube being in that area that was/would be directed to the ground. Any work I have done to the engine has been accomplished without removing the engine, so, if there is a road draft tube, I'm not seeing it. I hope I haven't opened a can of worms here!!!!
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Post by ca on Mar 17, 2008 15:23:29 GMT -5
no draft tube with the PCV equipped engines
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Post by ca on Mar 17, 2008 15:26:14 GMT -5
and the road draft tubes came out at the same place the PCV's were plumbed to- top back of the block
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Post by Meteorgirl on Mar 18, 2008 15:35:51 GMT -5
Hey Dan, I found the book that lists the thickness of all of the Fel-Pro performance gaskets. Here are the VC specs
#1614 rubber - .156 #1613 cork/rubber - .188 #1645 c/r with steel lam core - .313 #1684 silicone w/steel lam core - .200
The #1645 are the ones I used. They are pricey. I don't have the specs on the regular stock ones but I'm thinking around the .156 would be close.
If anyone needs info on this stuff, my book list the port sizes, thickness and even chamber volume (head gaskets) for all Fel-Pro high performance gaskets.
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Post by minimandan1 on Aug 5, 2008 14:02:52 GMT -5
hey meteorgirl do you still have your old pair of 1645 from when you were running stock valve covers?? if so what would you want for them?
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Post by Meteorgirl on Aug 5, 2008 14:23:36 GMT -5
No, sorry. Sold them with the chrome covers.
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