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Re: Alloy valve covers

To: Todd Mullins <todd@nutria.nrlssc.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Alloy valve covers
From: EMILY COWEN <ecowen@cln.etc.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:07:54 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Todd Mullins!!

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Todd Mullins wrote:

> canister, through the block, and to the carbs via PCV.  On the stock
> valve covers, this fitting has a very small inlet hole, and the workshop
> manuals make a big deal of this restricted inlet.  I guess you don't
> want too many gas fumes running around your crankcase at once, so they
> meter it with the restriction, but as I said, that's just a guess.

Todd, if you enlarge the orifice, you upset the air mixture in the carbs
at idle.  Try taking the top off the oil fill hole, and you'll see what
I mean.  

TTYL8r, Kirk Cowen   (who just got the APT catalogue, and now has to
                      decide HOW MUCH DO I SPEND?)


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