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Originally Posted by joedoh
if you look at BBPanel and BlackSheep engiines, and draw straight lines on them, you can see they have the same clearance as yours, with the passenger valve cover further back. Black Sheeps is a little misleading because the EGR tube kind of looks like the back edge of the valve cover, but its not. also BBP looks to have a differently shaped firewall to accomodate? maybe thats how a V8 firewall looks, even s10s have a crooked firewall for the passenger V6 valve cover.
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After reading this I went out and measured. Holding a straight edge against the end of the valve cover and measuring from it to the firewall there is 1/2" to 5/8" difference between the drivers side and passenger side. The drivers side being farther. There does not appear to be much, if any cylinder head offset from side to side on a BBC. A lot of cars have the engine offset towards the passenger side to allow more clearance for the steering column and steering gear.