Apologies for the delay, here are the pics of my Motordyne 5/16" spacer. As you can see, there is a brownish 'gum' like substance that appeared shortly after installation (within a couple of days) between the spacer, upper and lower plenum collectors. Motordyne stated that this was a normal process of the heat, gasket, and oil to create an even better seal between the metal pieces and the gasket.

 

ok, i totally got thread jacked, and got no help...austing35....get your own thread! lol

take a look at MY pics guys...any ideas?

 

First of all jackazz, AustinG35 posted pics to help YOU with YOUR issue. How is he jacking your thread?

I think an apology is in order and if you feel that's not necessary I say in the most polite way possible:

 

These pic look like an engine compartment of a "Junk yard Dog!" If you have a leak it would be easier to find if your engine was clean. You might have a leak buy how would you find it thru all that curd? It's Saturday time for a bath....
Gary

 

Agreed. All the posts and info were given and shown to you to help with your issue. Nowhere, did any of it go off topic and ask about another problem. And for those that have the same issue, it's better for them to post in this thread rather than making their own and cluttering up driver.

That post and pics were there to show that it's somewhat normal for buildup to occur for the heat, gasket, and oil to create a better seal. In your case, that's an excessive amount. Like Gary stated, clean your bay and see where it originates from.

 

maybe dude needs to retighten the plenum bolts maybe even new plenum gasket?

 

Question for OP and Austin; When installing the Spacer, did you put oil on the spacer? Also did you guys retain the factory plenum gasket in there as well? In the instructions I know it said to put oil on the "aramid gasket" for the lower plenum but not the actual gasket itself. Also on the DIY install vid it never showed anything about putting oil on the gasket. If you put oil on the gasket I could see this being normal like Motordyne said. However, if you didnt then I would think that somehow an excessive amount of blow by is going through your plenum and leaking out...? If you retained your factory gasket did you oil that up maybe? I've never seen that type of buildup before in all of the plenum pix ive seen