BBC coil/valve covers

[68shortwide]

So I was watching overhaulin last night and they put a set of hemi valve covers on an ls motor using simple brackets to hide the coils. I've wanted to do that with BBC covers for awhile now but never really had the time to design or think about it much. Has anyone else done this? If you have could you throw up some pics? Much thanks.

[H20cooled]

BBC covers might look good but I thought that those Hemi ones looks silly on there did not look like a Chevy it just looked weird. Would BBC be big enough to cover the coil packs and such?

[68shortwide]

Yeah that was my concern. I'll have to take some measurements and think on it.

[Kim57]

Holley makes covers that look like BBC.

Kim
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Holley-GM-Ch...47607b&vxp=mtr

[ls1nova71]

Google Holley shop truck. There are some pics of them painted orange, looks just like a big block.

[H20cooled]

Those would look nice especially with a paint job.

[68shortwide]

So i took some early measurements and set a factory bbc cover over it, and it fits over it, i figure a tall cover sunk down over with a way to cover the gap between it and the head would look pretty neat. now to fab a bracket and see if itll work.

[Kim57]

Originally Posted by 68shortwide

So i took some early measurements and set a factory bbc cover over it, and it fits over it, i figure a tall cover sunk down over with a way to cover the gap between it and the head would look pretty neat. now to fab a bracket and see if itll work.

Post pics of your progress so we can all see how it goes.
Kim

[oldman3]

Looking forward to seeing how this goes....Jim

[68shortwide]

Will do, itll probably be sometime before christmas as right now im gearin up for finals lol.

[68shortwide]

Can someone measure from the valve cover surface to the top of the coils? I don't have a valve cover available nor any coils/brackets to measure the height. Tia

[MattPSU]

I picked up a set of the Holley covers cheap. They don't work well with truck coils/brackets/intake/dipsticks without some fabrication. I had to make some small brackets to raise them off the valve covers and to clear the coils and I had to do some trimming to keep them from rubbing in a few places. I also had to bend both the trans and oil dipstick tubes to get everything to clear. Plan is to paint them and the Vortec cover body color. Hope to have them painted this week.

[68shortwide]

Yeah id heard that they didn't work well with our motors. Kinda the reason I wanted to use real ones. Though if this doesn't work out ill just buy a coil relocations set and buy a nice pretty set of valve covers lol

[68shortwide]

So....I havnt had much time to work on this project. so i think im just gonna buy a coil reloc set and Proform valve covers. I'll keep workin on it though when i have time.