RE: SD> white Valve cover?

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Tekampe
I concur With Richard on this, I have owned a few cars with covers that looked like the "white" one in Raplh's picture, all of them started life as silver covers and aged over the years to look like that. Here's an example of the one in my old blue 91 Shelby Daytona, it's a little more silver than

RE: SD> white Valve cover?

2005-01-20 Thread Mullikin, Stefan P
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ean Orsel Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:58 AM To: SDML Subject: Re: SD> white Valve cover? <> The bare valve cover is aluminium. I'm not sure how bad they would get in damp locations, but in the snow belts where salt is used on t

Re: SD> white Valve cover?

2005-01-20 Thread Ean Orsel
<> The bare valve cover is aluminium. I'm not sure how bad they would get in damp locations, but in the snow belts where salt is used on the roads, they corrode to look pretty dang nasty. I grabbed a spare cover from a '92 Spirit that had silver paint. Looked alot like my stock bare valve cov

RE: SD> white Valve cover?

2005-01-19 Thread Jason Arroyo
It's funny, I never understood why ChryCo bothered to paint silver a cast aluminum valvecover. I stripped mine once on my old Pacifica T1 and it looked ten times better. It's not like it's gonna rust or tarnish. -J Southern California Forced Induction 1989 Dodge Daytona Shelby Turbo II 1986 Chr