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working on her after 3 months, warning..... e street

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93project

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Well, I had my fox almost complete, just needed some interior work like headliner and such when only 800 miles in, the 5023 e-street heads decided to start coughing up valve springs. I started getting a lot of water vapor in my valve covers, but not the oil. Then the engine let loose with clouds of white smoke through the exhaust....
Long story short, tomorrow I'm pulling the edelbrocks off and putting on a set of milled twisted wedge with 8458pt2 felpros.I may have the e streets respringed to put on a prepped short block but we'll see.. I'm very disappointed with these heads and warn not to buy them
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What does "coughing up valve springs" mean? Were the springs breaking? Retainers letting loose? Those e-street springs dont like cams over 550 lift.

How did you know you had water vapor in the valve covers? Just wondering because maybe I do too on my 20 yr old Performer heads...

Except for the springs, the water stuff just sounds like it blew a head gasket.
 

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I had pieces of the inner springs sitting on top of the cylinder head... The vapor was collecting on top ofeach valve cover and getting sucked in threw pcv.The cam i have does not pass 510 lift.
 

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Sucks when new parts break. Hope you get it fixed with no more surprises.
 
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Aren't the springs that come on E street heads supposed to be for flat tappet cams?
 

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no. They're built for hydraulic.Got that from the horses mouth at an edelbrock booth . Spoke to steve koepp..anyway, I just installed the milled trick flows today, along with the manifold and dizzy. Wednesday, I just have the headers to bolt back on, along with the carb and PS pump, alt.
On a side note, when I took the rockers off the edelbrocks, four of the damn studs came out with the rockers! And I torqued them down before I installed the rockers the first time. I just don't think these heads are put together well......
 

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the e streets are designed for a stock cam.........
 

93project

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Edelbrock said e street could take up to .550" but either way, I wasn't happy with them. They're off and being sold for $500 as is to someone who wants to respring them.
Cobra912 said:
the e streets are designed for a stock cam.........
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