Hello JTpantera; I like your approach as "Seeing is Believing" unless of course you are at a Siegfried & Roy Magic Show!!!quote:Originally posted by JTpantera:
Jerry Panteleri fabbed a set of restrictors for my 351C pushrods back in 1994. It was an exercise to reduce flow to the top of the heads and keep more pressure on the main bearings. As I recall we reduced the orifice down to about .020. A fond recollection was starting the motor with the valve cover off and seeing the oil stream out of the rocker and hit my garage wall over 10ft away.
I abandoned the restrictors later as I discovered that the easily clogged with random pieces of RTV, etc.
Actually still have them with a very cool mini slide hammer Jerry made to install and remove.
I'd like to try the clear valve cover because I think that I would have to see it to believe that the valve covers could fill up so much quicker than they could drain. The area of the drain holes are so much larger than the area of the pushrod holes.
I see sets of 351C stock valves covers for sale ALL DAY Long at $50.00 or less on Craigs List/ eBay...small price to pay in my way of thinking to ACTUALLY SEE what is going on!
I'll donate $25.00 towards your experiment if you make a video to document the results...Mark