intake manifold pcv baffle/splash shield question

ChillyB wrote: Stainless steel pot scrubbers are commercially available.  There are also those round nylon pot scrubbers with no abrasives.  Original engines had an empty baffle and seemed to work fine.  What problem are we trying to solve by packing foreign material into the baffle?

Well, from many performance engines, it seems sucking oil through pcv is easier on the AMC engines. Though for big builds, they scavange pcv externally, thus the oil vapors are burt off through exchaust, rather than recycled into the combustion, and coating the intake floor as well.

I can see this is on the brink of becoming personal.  Enough information and opinions have been shared for any readers to make up their own mind.  If one does elect to put scotch brite in an engine at least give it a vigorous rub between your hands over a sheet of clean paper to shake off some of the abrasives.  It comes off easily, though impossible to get it all.  What falls off is a combination of abrasives, and also a flaky binder made of calcium (I think).   The abrasive is actually aluminum oxide, not silicon carbide as I originally stated.  Hard stuff none the less.

Does anyone know how to install the drive screws? It looks like I drill out the old broken ones. My research on the forums shows that the drive screws are #8 x 3/8". Do they just hammer in?

Drill appropriately sized hole and tap them in.  Screws have a short stump of "unthreaded" length to help start them.  

Trader wrote: I don't use anything but the Scotch Bright heavy duty green food safe scouring pads have no abrasives, just the same nylon/resin pad material. Exhaust resonator or permanent intake filter SS mesh would also work. It is woven and would not come apart. Just other options for people that want something in there.