Here's some pix of a new 440 stroker with about a dozen dyno runs, and maybe 20 miles on the road, getting home, then to my shop for final assembly and tune.
I was amazed at a few things on this "professionally" built engine, one was no PCV. Take a look at the underside of the valve covers I took off to adjust the valves. All that non-shiny stuff is condensation on the valve cover, and elsewhere you can bet. This is the same goop member Cannucky found inside his engine, with no PCV.
There was some serious valve noise, I discovered a backed-off adjuster that wiped out a rocker and broke the adjuster. Here's what I found used as pushrods, 5 would appear to be hemi solid lifter pushrods too big to even fit in the lifter, the 5 adjuster were about 1/2 inch proud of the others.
What valve train geometry you ask,, to be continued..
So if you think you don't need a PCV, think again, and if you're gonna get an engine built, get ready to tear it down to have it checked, unless it's from one of our sponsors of coarse.
hope it helps
