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Jul 20, 2005 | 03:08 PM

corvette90

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Burning Brakes

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Valve covers

hi all

im building up a 396 and have following question...

which valve covers can i use, if the must not interfere with the A/C compressor?

regards

Jul 20, 2005 | 03:30 PM

Pete K

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I used the crane narrow body roller rockers and modded the factory covers. They worked fine for me. A few friends have used aftermarket valvecovers and all seem to have pcv problems of some kind.

Jul 20, 2005 | 09:30 PM

2manyfuncars

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I'm using a set of newer GM tall perimeter bolt valvecovers and they clear my AC. I have to remove the AC compressor to take them on and off for valve adjustments though. Not too bad.

Good option for heads with perimeter and centerbolt holes...

Jul 20, 2005 | 09:31 PM

byebyeL98

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pete K

I used the crane narrow body roller rockers and modded the factory covers. They worked fine for me. A few friends have used aftermarket valvecovers and all seem to have pcv problems of some kind.

Pete - what kind of PCV problems?

Jul 20, 2005 | 09:51 PM

Caboboy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pete K

I used the crane narrow body roller rockers and modded the factory covers. They worked fine for me. A few friends have used aftermarket valvecovers and all seem to have pcv problems of some kind.

If I had it to do over again, this is what I'd have done. I used the Pro Mag rockers and had to grind the dawg out of my stock VCs and machine down the poly locks