What the title says.

 

i think it means the bolts a not strait in there but at an angle // \\

 

It means the outer two bolts on the four bolt cap are at an angle.

Straight 4 Bolt Cap



Splayed 4 Bolt Cap



Bret

 

hmm I wonder what the benefit is to have angled bolts. Dont ls1's use spayed 6 bolt mains.

 

The LS1 uses four vertical bolts, and two that enter horizontally from the sides.

In theory, putting the outer bolts at an angle could help prevent side-to-side movement of the caps, but there's already the indexing on the block to minimize that. Or, you could surmise that it is done to put the bolt into a "meatier" part of the block's web. But even that is debatable when a block has been designed from the start for the use of four parallel bolts.

 

No a LS1 cap looks like this...


4 straight and two from the side.

Angled bolts can tie into more material in the block, if there is any more to tie into. I've switched to a 4 bolt main cap register that is wider than the stock 2bolt but it also uses a splayed cap.

Bret