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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 01:53 AM
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after a LOOOONG day of working on my lovely ss we (jason, my cousin and my self) finally finished her up and got her started. it fired up right away and had a decent and stock like idle. unfortunatly on the way home i was leaving nice sized smoke screens (james bond kinds). once we got to my house i opened up the hood and from what it looks like

EDIT: LONG STORY SHORT...valve cover wasnt on right

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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 04:19 AM
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Oil doesn't leak from spark plugs.... It must be something else in that area. Someone might be able to tell you what it is but my LS1 knowledge isn't the greatest.
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Amorget
Oil doesn't leak from spark plugs.... It must be something else in that area. Someone might be able to tell you what it is but my LS1 knowledge isn't the greatest.
+1, someone either forgot to reinstall their PCV or tighten down their valve covers
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 11:34 AM
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thanks for correcting me...
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 01:37 PM
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Sent you a PM on the valve covers... Check there first. You may have over tigthtened. Let me know what you see...
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 01:51 PM
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Congrats! Sorry to hear about the oil but you'll find it, cant be anything major. Which cam did you put in?
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 02:09 PM
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Holy Cow, how can you do a cam swap and not know that oil can't leak from a spark plug?
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 02:38 PM
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lol shut up im still a rookie! we put in the torquer 2 from TSP. yeah it was the passenger side valve cover. the gasket got messed up when i put it back and wasnt sealed right. now i have brown collectors
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oh and WOW does my cat back like to squeek!!!!!!
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Old Aug 14, 2006 | 02:19 PM
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hey everyone. i have a video of my car idling i wana post up but it wont work on putfile because (i believe) its a MOV file. how do u change that? its also 28mbs and i see putfile can only upload 25mbs of videos. can anyone change it if i send it to them? im kinda lost on this
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Old Aug 14, 2006 | 08:43 PM
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Ryan K
Holy Cow, how can you do a cam swap and not know that oil can't leak from a spark plug?
This is signature quote material.

Good job on the cam swap though, does it rip pretty good now?
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 02:24 AM
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yes pulls pretty good up top. i would like to get a tune tho since my car likes being a little bitch on start up and has trouble finding an idle
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 04:30 AM
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email the video to jhansen@sccow.com and I'll convert and upload it
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