Valve job in progress

[MOSHO92]

Hey guys, im nearing the final stages of my valve job and need one piece of info. What do i torque the valve cover bolts to?
By the way, i was pleasantly suprised by hte condition of my cams and shims. When i first took off the covers everything was clean, clean, clean!! No orange hint even (every 3000 miles 5.5q of castrol GTX 5w-30 and a K&N oil filter). Also every single one of my shims were within spec, there was absolutly no damage to the cam lobes (all of them have a hint of the tree ring thing). I just replaced about 5 shims that had a scratch or two on them. Better safe than sorry.
The other thing im doing (the hardest part in my opinion) is disasembing the intake manifold and cleaning each part with berrymans.
Wow! such a long post for a small question.

 

[MOSHO92]

oops, sorry for the double post. btw there are 125,000 miles on my SHO and the valves have never been done before.

 

[FAST4DR]

Hey, I'm doing the same thing. That damn intake has a boatload of bolts and some are hard to get at. Were your gaskets stuck to the metal when you went to take it apart? Mine have a couple cracks in them. I have been debating replacing them or just siliconing the couple cracks. This may have been my problem with ideling, not sure. I want to powdercoat my intake in almost chrome but I don't have the time right now. So it will have to be later in the summer.

Will

 

[Gloffer]

Per the Helms manual the torque spec is 11-17 ft-lbs. Personally I torqued mine to 15 ft-lbs. However, you need to be very careful here to avoid breaking any of those bolts. If I had to do it over I would probably shoot for 12 to 13 ft-lbs.

You should use some anti-sieze on the the bolts. I chose to torque the bolts in a sequence even though I couldn't find one specified in the manual. I torqued them kinda like torquing a head sequence, from the middle out to the ends.

 

[sdpatt]

Not so fast. The torque on the valve cover bolts is only 8-11 lb-ft. Be very careful tightenening these bolts. It is the torque on the intake manifold bolts that is 11-17 lb-ft.

The intake bolts are to be "oiled" before installation, but anti-sieze would also work. The valve cover bolts are so lightly torqued that anti-sieze would not be necessary.

 

[MOSHO92]

Wow, thanks. Good thing i asked. I just hope that 8-11 ftlbs is enough to keep things from leaking. Thanks again.