^^^ Thx all.. guess I'll be tossing them back on once I get them cleaned up. 

The stock drivers side caliper on my 67 Fairlane went away and I decided to "upgrade" to a nice set of Wilwoods with drilled and slotted rotors as they are a nice match to my black wheels. Decided to reassemble w/o the dust shield until I could get them cleaned up and repainted. Looking at the setup now, I like the sans shield look.. any harm in leaving them off? This is just a street ride that rarely goes more than a few hundred miles on weekends.



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2nd vote fro FPA. You might play hell getting them in(like every other header).. but ground clearance is a non issue once they are installed.

He can use the 1247S3 variant with the steel liner

Hate to drag the thread OT, but I have a set of the standard 1247's that I was planning on installing in the next few days. Dang cork at the front and rear of the intake have been leeching oil and making a mess since I put the motor together, finally mad enough to replace them. So does the S3 variant fare better or should I just avoid the "Print-O-Leak" all together and get the Cometic/ Mr gasket? 

those are in damn nice shape and hard to come by...Good luck!

Been chasing an odd vibration back from the block and process of elimination is pointing toward the RE. I've been wanting to upgrade to a nodular Trac-lock anyway so now is a good as time as any. The folks I got my new drive shafts from have a pretty reasonbly priced setup here: http://www.justrearends.com/ProductDisplay.aspx?ID=27ab1016-8b4b-4d1a-87ad-e5ea6256ecca. Seems like a good setup for my mild build at about $1150. Any recommendations for alternatives from the crowd?

Thx
-scoot

Funny this post has come up. When I put my 390 back together a few years ago had the same issue with the intake gap.



Decided to try the OEM cork and see what happens despite my engine building friend who advised a nice bead of goo on both ends. Well after a few years of the intake leeching oil all over the place it's coming off and I'm going the bead of goo route.   


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Holy cow that photo is huge.. sorry. looking for a new photo hosting site since photobucket decided to end it's free service. I'll try to get that resized.

I know, topic has been beat to heck and back. I searched the forum and it seems to be based on your particular needs as to how much restriction to use... so here's my "case". My 390 is pretty pedestrian, rebuilt .030 over mild 268H cam, melling HV oil pump, stock C7AE-A heads with viton seals and hardened seats. Stock rocker assembly. This was my first 390/fe build and I used a stock set of felpro gaskets for reassembly. I noticed the felpro head gaskets had a restriction on the oil feed. Thinking this was a mistake, I punched the hole out to match the size of the port. Needless to say, I get lots of oil up top. To add to my issues I recently installed  smaller oil filter to clear my sway bar, so at highway speeds I'm sure to be getting some bypass. After highway runs I now need to wipe the film of oil around the oil cap/breather and PCV valve on my valve covers.

For this build, what is a reasonable amount of restriction erring on the side of caution? Car is currently running fantastic and I'd really like this to be a onetime removal of the valve cover and rocker assembly's.. drop in the jet and be on my way.