Thanks guys.

Bob

The distributor cap is just a stock Standard Parts unit from my local parts house. The “trick” is the way the distributor is installed and timed. Looking down from the top, #1 is at approximately 11 o’clock with the rotor pointing more or less at cylinder #1. Set up like this you get cylinders 1, 5 and 7 on the left of the cap and 8, 4 and 6 on the right. Cylinders 2 and 3 of course have to cross over. I run these under and behind the distributor and line everything up with the Made for You looms. The looms go a long way to cleaning up the look. The 90 degree ends at the distributor gives the set up a look that reminds me of the old crab distributor caps.

The PVC set up uses a hidden baffle made from junk I had laying around. I used a ½” stainless high pressure pipe plug, which is just a solid rod threaded for ½” pipe. I drilled this all the way through and tapped it for ¼” internal pipe threads on the same end as the ½” external threads. The actual baffle is made from 1” square tubing with a couple of small pieces of flat stock welded in to form a labyrinth. I know it looks kind of crude, but I think it will get the job done. The manifold is drilled and tapped for ½” pipe threads from the bottom and the breather screws in with the threaded end just above the outside of the manifold.



I originally intended to use a screw in PCV valve from a 65 327 Vette, but none of the parts places carried that valve. What they stocked for that application was an inline style valve that had a 3/8” hose connection on the carb end and a ½” hose connection on the manifold end. I used a ½” compression fitting with ¼” pipe threads to convert the inline valve to screw in. If you cut the expanded portion of the 1/2” hose fitting off of the valve, the stub that is left will fit in the compression fitting just fine.

The hose is just a PCV 90 degree molded piece from my local parts house. Sorry, I don’t know what it fits, but I’ve seen similar hoses on the “Help” isle at some chain parts places. The carb fitting is a compression fitting with a short piece of stainless tubing.


Mike