I'm looking at a car that has a carbed 351W in it. It had oil coming out of the breathers on both valve covers. He said it was normal, what do you guys think?
I had the same problem but had valve covers with baffles... also had .040 of ring end gap, and bad valve seals... You could see the oily smoke get out from the scoop on my car lol
Technically speaking, there should be a PCV valve in the passenger side valve cover. The driver's side should have a breather with a hose coming off of it that attaches to the air cleaner base. Thise would create a nice evactuation system, with the breather taking in clean air first through the air cleaner, then through the air cleaner in the breather and finally, into the engine. The PCV will also help. Of course, baffles are a must!
For what it's worth, I had the same problem on my old V-8 powered Pinto. I then changed the valve covers to baffled units and set my system up like the one described above and all of my breather problems were over.