Intake gasket opinions
Boy I've been down this friggin road before........
So this engine has 13 dyno pulls, plugs pulled a couple times and they looked great. Off the dyno, into the car and after a short first ride, it's smoking. Decided to jump on it hard and actually killed number 8 plug, it fouled so bad.
Bring it home, all plugs except # 1, and #2, are black oil fouled. Compression check good. Look down the intake with my bore scope and HELLO! Oil pooled in every closed intake valve. Looked through the sparkplug holes and saw oil actually pooled on a couple pistons.
My first thought.....and hope, was that the intake is really sucking oil. It sure LOOKS like it, but I'm really not buying it yet. Why would 13 dyno pulls not show it then?
Cleaned all gasket material off both surfaces and placed the intake back on with no gasket. I bolted the passenger side down and measured the gap at the driver side. I could barely slip a .008 feeler gauge in there. .028 gap at front china wall and .035 at the rear. Couldn't get a "wobble" before bolted down.
Seems to me I should have way more gap on the unbolted side. I had Edelbrock .062 gaskets on there. I run header evacs, no PVC.
Well, I don't like where this is probably gonna go, but here's a pic of one side.
Boy I've been down this friggin road before........
So this engine has 13 dyno pulls, plugs pulled a couple times and they looked great. Off the dyno, into the car and after a short first ride, it's smoking. Decided to jump on it hard and actually killed number 8 plug, it fouled so bad.
Bring it home, all plugs except # 1, and #2, are black oil fouled. Compression check good. Look down the intake with my bore scope and HELLO! Oil pooled in every closed intake valve. Looked through the sparkplug holes and saw oil actually pooled on a couple pistons.
My first thought.....and hope, was that the intake is really sucking oil. It sure LOOKS like it, but I'm really not buying it yet. Why would 13 dyno pulls not show it then?
Cleaned all gasket material off both surfaces and placed the intake back on with no gasket. I bolted the passenger side down and measured the gap at the driver side. I could barely slip a .008 feeler gauge in there. .028 gap at front china wall and .035 at the rear. Couldn't get a "wobble" before bolted down.
Seems to me I should have way more gap on the unbolted side. I had Edelbrock .062 gaskets on there. I run header evacs, no PVC.
Well, I don't like where this is probably gonna go, but here's a pic of one side.
