Recent content by Brandenthepilot

I appreciate the info! - do the compression numbers look normal?

The valve covers do have some oil residue on them but I figure it might have been from the oil being blown out of the oil breather. I’ll break into the headers tomorrow, I’m off so have plenty of time to do it. I’ll take as many pics and I can if the process. There is a small amount of oil...

Alright so here’s an update from today. I called the gentleman that sold us the car and got some details. The car has a 360 that was not original to this car specifically - it was then stroked to a 408. If that helps any. First - cleaned out the carb and throttle body and really focused on the...

I know it is an absolute disaster. Never messed with a carburetor/intake before, so I’ve been reading more and more about it. I’ll try to get it done today and most some pics if you don’t mind helping.

But the PCV is rattling still. Just doesn’t see to be vacuuming anything unless I remove the valve and use only the hose. However I have come to the conclusion that I might as well just rebuild the engine.

I’m going to give this a shock. This weekend and see what happens. Going to post the c Doing a compression test today just to do it. I’ll get all of this done this weekend and see what happens, I appreciate the help. I’ll keep you posted.

Just an update on this. Pulled the hose off and cleaned it as much as possible going to the manifold. I removed the oil filler cap, and there’s significant pressure being pushed out. Let the engine warm up a bit and there’s been some smoke coming from the passenger side headers. Not sure if...

There’s definitely pressure in the oil fill cap.

I haven’t tried other vacuum sources yet. When I remember the valve it seems to have great suction at the hose, just not when the valve is in. And yes the covers have baffles

The smoking is bad at idle... but doesnt go away when actually driving the car. the only time the smoke went away is when I tookthe PVC off and just put the hose in. My initial thought was that the valve wasnt creating enough suction.

Man, I'd really like to see the car running at it's best. Wanted to avoid a rebuild but if it calls for that then I'm willing to do it.

I work on airplanes and an LT1 out of my 97 fire bird was about the latest engine ive ever touched. lol I have a decent understanding of engines, but yes i have never worked on timing, I've used a local shop for all of that but right now they kind of seem to be refusing to touch this car. Not...

I dont know much about the car. Dad bought it about 5 years ago, it sat in a garage basically the whole time. I just moved back from florida in novemeber so its my "summer car" for the time being and just trying to get it running right. I want to say it was built to a 408.

I'll grab a gun tomorrow and see what it's reading. Where do you think it should be running? or is the completely unique to each engine/set up.

Lets not bring up Blow-by just yet lol. I'll get a clamp tomorrow and see what happens. Like i said when i take the valve off and stick just the hose end (i know its not a good thing) it stops.But with the valve in it doesnt do much of anything. Is there a after market valve that might be...