My Valve cover :)

[onesickcrx]

I finshed up my valve cover a week or two ago. I must say I am happy with the out come looking forward to testing it out...

I call it the mini baffle /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jepherz]

Looks pretty nice. I've gotten away with welding aluminum tabs to the underside which hold the stock steel baffle up. Did you cut that all out by hand? Any reason why you didn't put any of the holes in it or the rest of the baffle?

 

[onesickcrx]

Holes for what? There are none on the stock baffle...

 

[jepherz]

I thought there were slots cut out above a few of the cam caps?

 

[JNR]

Curious what the benefit to chopping off 50% of the baffle? If it's to clean in between, steam works awfully well with it intact /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Otherwise, would perforating (series of holes) be an option for somebody? Not for me (I cleaned mine already), just thinking out loud...

 

[mitsuturbo]

i was wondering the same thing about the cut baffle

 

[TylerAdamson]

Quoting JNR:
Curious what the benefit to chopping off 50% of the baffle? If it's to clean in between, steam works awfully well with it intact /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Otherwise, would perforating (series of holes) be an option for somebody? Not for me (I cleaned mine already), just thinking out loud...



Steam might work well, but if the valve cover was sandblasted and the powder coated then there will be residue in there that you just wont get out without removing it. If you don't get the valve cover thoroughly cleaned of all blasting/coating media then it can possibly contaminate your oil and ruin your motor. It's fairly common to completely remove all baffles and not replace them when adding extra crank case vents.

 

[onesickcrx]

Well the stock baffle has holes where the cams are and I made this just a little shorter then that. Exactly what is said here I wanted to make sure I could clean behind the baffle. Even more so with the metal shaving from drilling the whole for my bungs. I know of a lot of people that run no baffle when they have big breathers -8an and bigger seem to collect very little oil on a tight motor. I happen to have -10an lines and fittings into a JMF big breather box, so I felt compelled to just give myself a little more reassurance that I wouldn't have a ton of oil in my breather tank

 

[mitsuturbo]

Set up your tank to drain back to the block and you wont have to worry about it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif