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Took a few days but got it finished up. After about 6 years i wasnt happy with my valve cover breather and pcv valve hose routing anymore. I also thought there is something that would look a little better too. I ended up ordering a pair from billet specialties, they make a billet pcv valve breather that is supposedly suppose to fit a 1” valve cover hole which was wrong, luckily the nipple on the breather itself is about 3/4” and i just had to open up the center of the oem style grommet and fit perfectly. Since billet specialties only makes a open breather without a pcv valve and my air cleaner housing has a nipple on it for a hose to run to the breather i ended up getting a second pcv breather and since the billet specialties breathers and pcv breathers unscrew into two halves you can access the pcv valve and remove the pcv valve by removing the snap ring. The breather for the pass side has a 1” nipple which fit perfectly into the factory grommet.
with the pcv valve out i can now use it as a breather i can connect to the air cleaner housing. I opened up the old edelbrock breather and found a piece of foam to help filter the air. I didnt want to reuse the foam so i went to the parts store and found a pre filter piece of the foam that goes around a lawn mower filter. Cut the ring and had a long strip of foam, cut out about 6 foam disks that way i can replace them every 2-3 years or so.
Then screwed the housing halves back together.
The day before i had my hoses made, ended up finding some dorman pcv elbows in the help section at the parts store. I also used some brass hose barbs and used a short piece of 1/2” hose for the pass breather and 3/8 hose for the pcv valve. Took a little measuring and fitting but the hose routing is much neater
Pcv before:
Breather before:
pcv after:
Breather after:
matches the other aluminum parts nicely
Took a few days but got it finished up. After about 6 years i wasnt happy with my valve cover breather and pcv valve hose routing anymore. I also thought there is something that would look a little better too. I ended up ordering a pair from billet specialties, they make a billet pcv valve breather that is supposedly suppose to fit a 1” valve cover hole which was wrong, luckily the nipple on the breather itself is about 3/4” and i just had to open up the center of the oem style grommet and fit perfectly. Since billet specialties only makes a open breather without a pcv valve and my air cleaner housing has a nipple on it for a hose to run to the breather i ended up getting a second pcv breather and since the billet specialties breathers and pcv breathers unscrew into two halves you can access the pcv valve and remove the pcv valve by removing the snap ring. The breather for the pass side has a 1” nipple which fit perfectly into the factory grommet.
with the pcv valve out i can now use it as a breather i can connect to the air cleaner housing. I opened up the old edelbrock breather and found a piece of foam to help filter the air. I didnt want to reuse the foam so i went to the parts store and found a pre filter piece of the foam that goes around a lawn mower filter. Cut the ring and had a long strip of foam, cut out about 6 foam disks that way i can replace them every 2-3 years or so.
Then screwed the housing halves back together.
The day before i had my hoses made, ended up finding some dorman pcv elbows in the help section at the parts store. I also used some brass hose barbs and used a short piece of 1/2” hose for the pass breather and 3/8 hose for the pcv valve. Took a little measuring and fitting but the hose routing is much neater
Pcv before:
Breather before:
pcv after:
Breather after:
matches the other aluminum parts nicely