Replaceing an Aveo Valve Cover Gasket – December 2010
by Subachad on Jan.18, 2010, under Automotive
With around 75,000 miles, I started getting some excessive oil around the valve cover base. I had a full blown oil leak where the valve cover protects the spark plug galleys from getting any oil in them. This made for a couple of oily plugs which does not work out to well for performance. The install went pretty straight forward, while I was in there, I also removed the Exhaust Manifold and did some minor gasket match porting on the head and exhaust manifold.
The minor port work I did had some surprising results. There is a “test turn” which I would normally take around 65 as that’s all the car could really muster. After the porting, I am through third, into fourth and find myself lifting as 75 is a little too fast for this turn.
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Time to get to work
Heat Shield Off
Trim Piece Removed
View of my dirty plug wires
Valve cover coming off
Cams exposed
Front shot.. paint tray is for the bolts
Lower part of valve cover
Oil in the spark plug chamber from leaky valve cover gasket
New Valve cover gasket installed
Another top shot
Exhaust Ports – I didn’t get another picture after the mild porting
Exhaust manifold, This was ported based on the black exhaust marks
Lower part, no real changes made, just smoothed out the casting lip
Looking straight down at the CAT and a broken A/C line
Painted the manifold to clean it up a little
All set!
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