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Old 12-29-2008, 04:29 AM
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Boy, your car really pops. Is that dusk blue? Not up on judging, but are repops permitted? i.e. brake booster
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Old 12-29-2008, 04:56 AM
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Car looks great-----But,Show Me the Money. Not the Teflon tape.....
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Old 12-29-2008, 04:58 AM
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I'm not throwin' any stones at you, Brad That looks absolutely superb to me When I got my car, it still had the original gaskets on the valve covers, and they were a silver color. One of the repro vendors actually sells them that way, but I don't remember which one. Not sure if it was originally some type of adhesive/sealant or what, but there had to be some reason for it to be on there. Since cork is not naturally silver in color, that meant an additional step (read: $$$) in the mfg process.
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Old 12-29-2008, 05:04 AM
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The silver colored valve cover gaskets noted that the motor was a high perf. motor.. Just don't make the same mistake I did.. After adjusting the rockers (due to the solid lifter cam) I made the mistake of painting both sides of the cork gasket silver. I had one hell of a time getting the valve covers back off the head about a year later when I went back to adjust the rockers again.. The paint on the cork gaskets stuck to the head surface like super glue.. Only paint the side that will be mating to the valve cover itself..

Classic Industries sells the silver colored gaskets but I was not going to spend that kind of money.. Going to the parts store and picking up an inexpensive cork set and buzz can them silver is the way to go....

Engine bay looks great!!

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Old 12-29-2008, 05:09 AM
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The silver colored valve cover gaskets noted that the motor was a high perf. motor

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Rich,

Not sure about that one as my car is a 325hp 396.
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Old 12-29-2008, 05:20 AM
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Bill, thats what I always heard.. But it could be just some type of sealant that was on the big block gaskets..

Brad, I agree with the others, the teflon tape has to go, you don't need it those fitting will seal just fine w/o it. The battery tag needs to go and it also looked to me like there was a GM sticker on the washer bottle.. I would probably take that off also...

Do you have that hard to find and often misplaced little wire bracket on the very far back, left (drivers side) head that holds the oil pressure wire, if the car was non mechanical gauges and electrical?? I could not see from the picture in there but it looked like it was there holding the blue wire....

Like the battery stamps and the original oil dipstick!!

I would wish you good luck but I don't think you will need it.. You will do great!!

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Old 12-29-2008, 07:05 AM
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[/ QUOTE ]Teflon tape is gone
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Boy, your car really pops. Is that dusk blue? Not up on judging, but are repops permitted? i.e. brake booster

[/ QUOTE ]Yes the car is Dusk Blue. That's the original Brake Booster and even the lid is original.
We went over the lids and covered alot of info about them with Don Lightfoot.
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Old 12-29-2008, 07:18 AM
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Bill, thats what I always heard.. But it could be just some type of sealant that was on the big block gaskets..

Brad, I agree with the others, the teflon tape has to go, you don't need it those fitting will seal just fine w/o it. The battery tag needs to go and it also looked to me like there was a GM sticker on the washer bottle.. I would probably take that off also...

Do you have that hard to find and often misplaced little wire bracket on the very far back, left (drivers side) head that holds the oil pressure wire, if the car was non mechanical gauges and electrical?? I could not see from the picture in there but it looked like it was there holding the blue wire....

Like the battery stamps and the original oil dipstick!!

I would wish you good luck but I don't think you will need it.. You will do great!!

Rich

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Oh no the GM sticker on the washer bottle has to go funny is all the shows I have been to so far like my washer bottle parts sticker, LOL

So you like my dip stick that was a pain in the arse, if you look at some of my other pictures you will see a repop dip stick, I did have another original dip stick that had the pink tip so what I did was remove the repop dip stick and hammered it into the flat original one that I had and switched out the tips. The hard part was breaking off the shorter dip stick inside the handle of the original pink tip but they are shorter and will not get a correct oil level. Once that was out it was easy switching them out even the cup with gasket comes off.

Yes I do have my original clip that holds the oil pressure wire.
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Old 12-29-2008, 07:23 AM
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My car is a 350 HP car so do I need to have silver cork valve cover gaskets or not???
Bill raised some doubt??
My car is not a L78 or copo I wish it was.
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