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Re: Re; HIF Woes, the Saga Continues

To: Rick Lindsay <rick@stoolhead.com>
Subject: Re: Re; HIF Woes, the Saga Continues
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 22:09:16 -0700
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
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Rick,
     This is beginning to sound like a chorus.  The very next thing I 
will do is vent the valve cover before anything else.  The consensus of 
the list demands it.
Mike

Rick Lindsay wrote:

>>Gerard also mentioned that I am probably
>>building up pressure in the valve cover (not
>>vented) because the oil is not draining back
>>into the motor, forcing oil to go the only
>>place it can, down the intake valve stem on the
>>intake stroke.
>>    
>>
>
>If you have any blow-by at all, you are probably pressurizing the crankcase.
> I don't let
>that stuff get back into the intake but rather, I
>vent it via a hose, down below the car.  Oily
>blow-by gasses reduce the effective octane of the
>charge promoting preignition.
>
>rick

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