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07-13-2010, 10:12 PM
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LS valve covers
I didnt like the cast covers!
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07-13-2010, 10:28 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
Those look awesome. Whats your project?
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07-13-2010, 10:50 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
Dude! is that machined from a solid billet? Those must cost a fortune! Wow, can you send me a cad file of them? super cool!
edit, I spy a machined block in the background of pic 1. More info PLEASE!
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07-14-2010, 05:27 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
Thanks, I have an 87 swb,w/an Ls-1. I hated the coil packs, & the 4 screws on top.
Yes, they are made out a solid billet, & no you can not have a cad file. The hardest part, was finding the 12 point 10-32's that hold the cap to the base. |
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07-14-2010, 08:44 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
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 How and where are you relocating the coil packs? |
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07-14-2010, 07:23 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
No worries, sorry if I came off a little harsh, didnt mean to, its just I'm always getting asked for artwork. The machining was the easy part, it was creating the model & making sure everything was going to look just right was the hard part. I haven't decided on where to move the coil packs just yet. They shouldn't be to hard to get out of sight though.
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07-14-2010, 09:27 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
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Do you have a build thread? Pictures? I'm just wrapping up the paint on my son's 86. We already installed a TBI 5.7. Now I'm thinking about putting a 4.8 with a 4l60e in there. Probably will be after he trashes the current engine, I am collecting parts though. I am thinking the custom valve covers would be really nice. |
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07-14-2010, 09:55 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
I like I like
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07-14-2010, 10:16 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
Those look great. What goes in the center where the two small holes are at?
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07-14-2010, 10:24 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
A medallion sits there, I still have to make those yet. I will have something soon, they will be at the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville in a couple of weeks. I had the valve covers @ Goodguys in Columbus this past weekend. I had alot of interest in them.
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07-15-2010, 03:01 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
Is there any room for airbrush and maybe some neon lights on those valve covers? Rhinestones?
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07-15-2010, 06:03 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
 
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07-15-2010, 07:18 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
I bought a set of relocators from MAST MOTORSPORTS. I know you may want to make your own, but sometimes for a part that no one will see, it's easy to just buy from somone who has already wasted the money on R&D and test fitting for you. You'd spend more "value" in time designing them than what it would cost to buy them, not to mention the materials and machine time.
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07-15-2010, 05:44 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
I've seen those, I don't want to see the coils at all though. I might put them in the inner fender's, or behind the dash, I have plenty of room there. I don't know yet.
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Re: LS valve covers
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07-15-2010, 08:22 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
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07-15-2010, 08:44 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
I love the work you did! you do indeed have some talent!
I wonder if their is a way to make valve covers like yours, but make a false section above a plate so that the coils aren't being splashed by oil. Then house the coils in side, then put the top plate on like you have it and just have the wires coming out of the covers. or would that look stupid or be wayyy to tall? Lol
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07-15-2010, 08:49 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
Yeah, Greening Auto Company. They just came out with them, voted best new product at Goodguys this past weekend.
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07-15-2010, 10:55 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
This link shows what they look like from the front side. They also have a kit to make your TB look more like a carb.
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/conver...sion-carb.html
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07-16-2010, 12:29 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
Cool, if only their was a way to not have the vents on the top. maybe small "louvers" on the sides. but I guess there would be a ton of heat from those things.
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09-08-2011, 09:35 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
Those are different looking... Those are built by the same company making my billet hood hinges! Like the first valve covers in the thread!!!
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09-08-2011, 09:55 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
nice!...and they're cheap too.
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09-08-2011, 10:57 PM
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Re: LS valve covers
those are sweet,
oh yeah necro thread!!! 
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09-09-2011, 10:59 AM
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Re: LS valve covers
Wow 1200 for a set of valve covers. Imo I think they look tacky with wires hanging out of the valve covers. The first set look better.
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