Hey everyone i just installed a pair of valve covers on my car

its a carbed 350

my question is do i need breather caps on both valve covers?? i hooked up the PCV hose to the carburator.. do i need ANY breather caps if i have a PCV hose hooked up??

This is a diagram of how i currently have it set up. should i remove the passenger side breather cap? of should i add a breather cap to the driverside

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Valve covers often have a DEFINITE intake side and an exhaust side. If they're put on backwards, rockers may hit them.

First thing to do, is make sure they're on the right way. Kind of doesn't look like it but it's hard to tell. If you set them on a flat surface, the intake side should stand up straighter than the exhaust side.

Then, the PCV system requires a source of fresh, filtered air into the crankcase. The valve allows dirty air with contaminants to be drawn out of the crankcase and into the engine to be burned. Air should pass through a filter, into one VC, through the motor by whatever path it wants to follow, into the other VC, and out the PCV valve and into the intake manifold.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "breather cap". If this is a cap that has some form of filtration and lets in air, then it needs to be on the pass side valve cover. If it's just a typical oil fill cap, then you need to replace it with one of the kind that has a filter, so it can breathe.

 

so yes vette, you've got it set up right.

an intake and exhaust side to your valve covers eh? hmm, uh oh, better take a look at mine,.,,