carb studs

well. for the valve cover use rubber. you will be able to get it off after you put it back together with out it tearing. also. why do you need to eliminate the spacer? it will decrease performance.

Have you figured out where to plumb your PVC?

Ive used both rubber gaskets (Felpro) and cork (PCM, with the metal washers built in) on the valve covers. Both are good.

well even though you now have a high rise manifold the spacer still allows the air to build some momentum as it goes into the intake manifold and this really helps with low end torque. especially for a 351w. but if you move the pcv to one of the intakes that cylinder will run lean if your engine vets a decent amount. over this past weekend i found out that our Martinique vets a decent amount of white smoke from the both valve covers when i disconnect the hoses from the valve covers. :(

yes a new holley would be nice, but my boat budget is shot for the year. So tim you really think I should leave it be then and just deal with the fact there is slight opening at the bottom of the doghouse. The aluminum pieces I added are supporting it so it isnt resting on the carb or anything. Im not really worried about any loss in torque or hp, it would be negligable to the point of not noticing I would imagine.

I dropped 400lbs of wet foam, added gt-40 heads, highrise intake, and an acme 540. I never was lacking power before all that, I could still slalom fine with 5 people in the boat. Im not worried about the performance with/without the spacer.

89Martinique wrote: but if you move the pcv to one of the intakes that cylinder will run lean if your engine vets a decent amount. over this past weekend i found out that our Martinique vets a decent amount of white smoke from the both valve covers when i disconnect the hoses from the valve covers. :(

If you have excessive blow-by I'd think the rings are worn.

My Weiand Stealth intake has a tapped port in the #7 intake runner
that is used for PVC vacuum and Im using it. So far so good.

My engine cover would'nt close so I removed the spacer. The hood clears the carb J tubes by 1/2 in. So I cut the spark arrester down to just clear the J tubes. The Stealth intake is 2 in taller than stock with the 1in spacer. A Proformer intake 1in taller.
I do have a hood to cut up and glass but it's down the list of things to do.

My boat runs good the way its set up (50 with the wind on GPS)

Waterdog wrote: 89Martinique wrote: but if you move the pcv to one of the intakes that cylinder will run lean if your engine vets a decent amount. over this past weekend i found out that our Martinique vets a decent amount of white smoke from the both valve covers when i disconnect the hoses from the valve covers. :( If you have excessive blow-by I'd think the rings are worn. My Weiand Stealth intake has a tapped port in the #7 intake runner that is used for PVC vacuum and Im using it. So far so good.

yes they probably are. the boat only had 540 hours on it when we bought it and now its got almost 800. we acquired it in fall of 2010. but a ring job wont be done for a long time. only prob we have had is it got overheated and the sharp "S" bends that cc made with wire tubing collapsed and the engine would refuse to run from 750-1200 rpm. it would shake really bad and then literally jump and the rpms would be just over 1200.

ya thats what I was thinking but I guess I wanted to see if someone would really try and stop me , like no you fool!!!! HA.