Ah, found another dormant brain cell . . . sorry Hutch but it is going on 13 years now since the build.
I made custom baffles for my covers due to pcv oil suck with the stock baffle and also went with dual pcv valves. Was sucking in oil so I made and brazed on the same shallow baffles that extend clear to the very end of both valve covers, then had them blasted and chromed. I pull in the air from both ends back to the center and then out => no more oil suck. I also had an off idle ~ light throttle hesitation, more akin to turbo lag on a turbocharged engine, that was due to the single pcv valve opening just a bit too soon combined with ECM confusion over the extra cubes and bigger cam. So, I take filtered air clear down into the crankcase through the oil tube and then evacuate both valve covers. The two pcvs in parallel require just a bit more rpm to pop them both open so the light throttle hesitation problem was solved and, I might add, it does a more efficient job of evacuating the engine by taking clean air clear down into the crankcase and then up both sides [look at the pcv intake side of a high mileage motor ~ solid gunk]. Of course, at the rate I'm NOT getting it back together, I may never get this motor to "high mileage" but . . . details!
If someone can provide the underside view of the factory baffles on stock covers, I will go pop my DS cover back off and snap a pic?
I made custom baffles for my covers due to pcv oil suck with the stock baffle and also went with dual pcv valves. Was sucking in oil so I made and brazed on the same shallow baffles that extend clear to the very end of both valve covers, then had them blasted and chromed. I pull in the air from both ends back to the center and then out => no more oil suck. I also had an off idle ~ light throttle hesitation, more akin to turbo lag on a turbocharged engine, that was due to the single pcv valve opening just a bit too soon combined with ECM confusion over the extra cubes and bigger cam. So, I take filtered air clear down into the crankcase through the oil tube and then evacuate both valve covers. The two pcvs in parallel require just a bit more rpm to pop them both open so the light throttle hesitation problem was solved and, I might add, it does a more efficient job of evacuating the engine by taking clean air clear down into the crankcase and then up both sides [look at the pcv intake side of a high mileage motor ~ solid gunk]. Of course, at the rate I'm NOT getting it back together, I may never get this motor to "high mileage" but . . . details!
If someone can provide the underside view of the factory baffles on stock covers, I will go pop my DS cover back off and snap a pic?
