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Re: PCV valve on Cannon manifold

To: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Subject: Re: PCV valve on Cannon manifold
From: "Geoff Branch" <branch@valinet.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:04:38 -0400
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Reply-to: "Geoff Branch" <branch@valinet.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Much thanks (again) to all who responded.  I like Frank's idea of tapping
into both sides so soon I will remove the manifold, again, for the
thousandth time.

Geoff Branch
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@exit109.com>
To: Geoff Branch <branch@valinet.com>
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: PCV valve on Cannon manifold


>Geoff Branch wrote:
>>
>> I was about to start putting an PCV valve in my '74 1275 and realized
that
>> it has a Cannon intake manifold on it, with only one possible place to
>> connect the PCV.  This on tap is on the forward of the two manifold
halves,
>> that is, feeding the front two cylinders.  My questions then:  Wouldn't
this
>> throw off the mixture in the front two cylinders?  And with a Weber side
>> sucker I really, really don't want to attempt jetting the two sides
>> differently, do I???  Does anyone know if this is a metric threaded tap?
>> Anyone out there with any experience with these Cannons?  Thanks in
advance
>> as always.
>>
>> Geoff Branch
>
>Geoff
>
>I recently drilled 2) holes in my Cannon intake, tapped them with 1/8"
>pipe threads, picked up 2 nipples to fit the threads at a hardware store
>and ran 2) 5/16" hoses to a "Y" and then to the PCV.
>The side sucker Weber seems to like this much better. At least I noticed
>a much snappier accelleration.
>This was found by accident when I put a Weber on my A40 that had 2 holes
>and not 1 big hole like most intakes. I have since made this
>modification to my Sprite.
>I recomend it.
>
>Plug up the large hole or scale it down to 1/8" pipe thread, drill and
>tap the other barrel of the intake and put 2 fittings in. I used a 1/8"
>pipe > 5/16" ribbed for a hose type fitting. Now both barrels suck the
>same.
>You can always plug up the new threads with an 1/8 pipe plug.
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Bugeye Sprite
>67 Sprite
>59 A40
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
>


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