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Re: Alloy valve covers

To: todd@nutria.nrlssc.navy.mil (Todd Mullins), mgs@Autox.Team.Net (mgs)
Subject: Re: Alloy valve covers
From: Skip Kelsey <kelsey@value.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 15:13:22 -0700
Your right about the restriction. My oversite,Good call,I do put a
restricter in the fitting.



Skip......At 03:29 PM 7/1/97 -0500, Todd Mullins wrote:
>David Moore wrote:
>
>> >     Does anyone know where to fing alloy valve covers that have the smog 
>> >     fitting on the back?
>
>Skip Kelsey writes back:
>
>> I dont think that there are any. I drill a hole in the back and install a
>> 90 degree aircraft type bulkhead fitting. The hose slips right on. You can
>> get them in brass. They look very good.
>
>Hmmm.
>
>Unless y'all are talking about something totally different, the smog
>fitting on the back of the valve cover pulls fuel vapors from the carbon
>canister, through the block, and to the carbs via PCV.  On the stock
>valve covers, this fitting has a very small inlet hole, and the workshop
>manuals make a big deal of this restricted inlet.  I guess you don't
>want too many gas fumes running around your crankcase at once, so they
>meter it with the restriction, but as I said, that's just a guess.
>
>Any other thoughts?
>
>-- 
>
>Todd Mullins
>Todd.Mullins@nrlssc.navy.mil   On the lovely Mississippi (USA) Coast
>
>'74 MGB Tourer with stock valve cover and carbon canister
>
>Atheist #685                   "Whatever, baby."
>
>


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