i bought some ford racing black with brushed fins "mustang powered by ford" valve covers

im going to be using these with 1.7 ratio rockers

theyre short, i know to make em fit i have to take out the baffle, but both have three peices of the metal with holes to bolt the baffle to, if you understand what i mean, is all i have to do for proper clearance remove the baffle on the pass. side, or do i have to remove all of the rogue stallactites inside the covers too?

 

Not sure with those but i have 1.6 ratio's and stock fox vc's with thick gaskets cleared mine just fine. So you might be able to leave the baffle's in and just get the thicker gaskets.

 

[&:]you dont need thicker gaskets to clear 1.6 ratio rockers, lol, thats the stock ratio

 

^^^sometimes you do! it all depends on the valve cover being used...in your case put some play dough on top of the rockers and set the covers on and measure the crush on the play dough and that'll answer your question

 

lol, fine, i guess i get to go next door and steal some from my neighbors kid [&:]

 

anyone have a thread saved on how to grind the 86-93 fox valve covers to fit over roller rockers? i'm curious to see how guys did this without removing the oil baffle

 

they dont need to be ground. I am running comp cams pro magnum roller rockers under a set of fox covers, all I did was remove the baffle plate by unscrewing it.

use the permadry blue valvecover gaskets too... they are thick and give more clearance