need help installing tall valve covers on ls1
08-05-2010, 09:37 AM
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need help installing tall valve covers on ls1 need help with valve cover install. these valve covers dont have any opening for the hose that runs from the psg to drivers and back to the manifold hose. there's another hose that runs from the valve covers to the tb. well these are welded solid. only opening they have is the oil cap. I was told by Correy to run a filter on the oil cap to help them breath. and to plug the tb. now where the manifold plugs to the nipple hose that runs to the back there's another lil wire that is attached to the head. it almost looks like a ground wire or something. what do i do with that? is it safe to remove it? another question is by removing these hose's will it affect anything?
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08-05-2010, 11:02 AM
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That braided steel wire going to the PCV valve is a heat sink wire, not a ground. It's there to transfer heat from the head to the PCV valve to keep the oil vaporized for better combustion. Adding a breather cap will vent the crankcase to the atmosphere, but it will do nothing to scavenge oil vapors out of the crank case to prevent oil contamination like a good PCV system, preferrably with a quality catch can.
08-06-2010, 12:14 PM
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I think that will work. The breather cap would serve as your fresh air source (the hose that connects the TB to the passenger side valve cover) and the LS6 valley cover would scavenge oil vapor from the block into the intake. I would pick up a nice oil catch can use in between the cover and the intake.
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08-06-2010, 09:06 PM
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yup. so the filter goes where? sorry guys I'm an idiot. I'm going to order the valley cover online,but i need to drive the car this sunday.would i be ok if for now I rove the hoses, plug the tb,remove the heat wire and use a breather filter on where the oil cap goes?
08-06-2010, 10:19 PM
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damn. i need to drive the car for the weekend. if i were to go this route. what would i use to cover the manifold hose? keeping in mind i dont have a valley cover at hand.
08-07-2010, 01:11 AM
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where can i get those caps at? i tried looking for a filter that fits the oil cap opening and no luck. the only one that i saw that might fit looked like **** because the filter was huge.
08-07-2010, 09:31 AM
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damn, these valve covers are a pain in the ***, i'm going to have to put out another 100.00+ to make this crap work. so i assume my other option is drilling the breather holes onto the valve covers right?
08-07-2010, 02:50 PM
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well i got the valve covers in.
i pulled the hoses out. i bought a nice k&n breather filter and have it mounted on the oil hole. i pluged the tb and the manifold with caps. I'm i ok to drive it? i had the car running for a bit and its seems fine. everything in place.i just need a oil cap elbow to have everything fit right.
i pulled the hoses out. i bought a nice k&n breather filter and have it mounted on the oil hole. i pluged the tb and the manifold with caps. I'm i ok to drive it? i had the car running for a bit and its seems fine. everything in place.i just need a oil cap elbow to have everything fit right.