So I decided to spend some time finishing off a few things in the engine bay.
These are the current pics of the engine bay as it is now .

 

Grabbed another timing cover had it powder coated to match my heater tubes and engine mounts

Bought a new water pump and LCE pro Oil pump had them polished.

 

I have been wanting to do one of the LCE pro cylinder heads for some time
The truck currently has all the other goodies on it already including the Pro EFI camshaft.

So i decided to go with the Stage 2 head and Stage 2 camshaft.

I took the head apart and had that polished as well

 

Who is doing all the polishing? That LCE head looks like jewelry. Wow nice work.

 

Got around to tearing into it tonight

 

Going to weld up the extra holes on the LCE header flange while I have it off . Then I will send it out to be ceramic coated again

 

DAMN!

I was just about to give ya hell about the header being so nasty
Looks good

I take it you've tried to make an inner fender to cover those tires before. That's a lot of cleaning when the tires keep throwing debris in there.

 

There are half covers in there .
Thats the most i can run with this size wheel

 

Some more pics

Got the head off and started cleaning stuff up

 

?
Are you running copper head gaskets or do they just look that way?

 

Sprayed it with copper spray

 

Ah, haven't seen that done in a few years. Mainly on older performance V8 stuff.
Now days everybody just gets FelPro's and call it good. (<V8's)

 

Put it back together

 

Looks great!

How much do you drive this thing?

 

Not much , its only a show truck for the weekends
Might see 1000-2000 miles a year .

 

Got it all finished this weekend

 

Have you ran valve covers with breathers like that before?

I've ran them on a couple V8's but stopped using them and returned to the stock PCV system. I found the breathers let small amounts of oil escape and it kept messing up the valve cover even when the engine is good and tight. The engines did see 5500-6000 rpm fairly regularly though.

 

Strider - V8's are a hole different ball game. I know what your talking about with oil getting past the breather, I experienced it on my sbc 383.. but on my last truck with a 22r I ran those holes just open (no breather or pcv or anything) and didn't have a single drop of oil come out of them. I think it's because of the way the valve covers are baffled.