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A little quality time with my engine this week ...

FM Former Member
You guys probably know by now I had a bit of a go-around with my attempt at the Type IV 'Porsche' script valve covers I got from Leon. Turns out, my Bus heads are a little too deep for them to work on my car. It would have been nice, and they would have looked great, but I've sent them to a friend with a 914. They should work great for him.

I made a mistake when I tried to install them last week -- I didn't have gaskets to put back on the old ones before I drove the car home form the firehouse; instead, realizing my mistake, I decided to put the old gaskets back in and goober the lip with some RTV before the drive.

That didn't go so well. I wound up losing a lot of oil, but nothing broke or overheated. I wasn't going to put the old covers back on with fresh gaskets until I cleaned them up, so I wire wheeled them to bare metal, and added a little paint.

I posted the results on the SOC FB page, but here's the 'how' -- to answer Lane's question. Lots of time, lots of detail work, but I think they came out beautifully.

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FM Former Member
You guys probably know by now I had a bit of a go-around with my attempt at the Type IV 'Porsche' script valve covers I got from Leon. Turns out, my Bus heads are a little too deep for them to work on my car. It would have been nice, and they would have looked great, but I've sent them to a friend with a 914. They should work great for him.

I made a mistake when I tried to install them last week -- I didn't have gaskets to put back on the old ones before I drove the car home form the firehouse; instead, realizing my mistake, I decided to put the old gaskets back in and goober the lip with some RTV before the drive.

That didn't go so well. I wound up losing a lot of oil, but nothing broke or overheated. I wasn't going to put the old covers back on with fresh gaskets until I cleaned them up, so I wire wheeled them to bare metal, and added a little paint.

I posted the results on the SOC FB page, but here's the 'how' -- to answer Lane's question. Lots of time, lots of detail work, but I think they came out beautifully.

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FM Former Member
When they cooled off, the yellow had gone from pale to canary, as I had hoped, and the red went from bright to about like a rare steak. I think that added a little vintage flair to them.

I added a black band for contrast, put my fittings back on and set the new gasket with black RTV on the cover side and grease on the car side. After 24 hours' set-up time, I reinstalled everything. The bails scratched the covers up a touch, but I'll fix that later this week.

Test-drove the car last night around midnight. Zero defects, and with the valves opened up to .006, everything seemed to breathe better. I'm pretty stoked.

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FM Former Member
Live and learn, eh Leon? No harm, no foul.

They would have been nice. Larry didn't understand either, so I might have been doing something wrong -- but I fiddled with them for quite a while before I gave up. I didn't want to render them useless for someone else. I traded them for future considerations rather than selling them, so they still have good karma. ;)

Mat, probably not. Those covers are pretty hot when the engine's running. Rubberized anything wouldn't hold up. Plus, in my car it wouldn't matter. I have an ATV muffler, so nothing intended to quiet the mechanical parts down would make a whit of difference.

I like it that way. If I tried to make the exhaust sound civilized, it would throw off the rest of what makes that jalopy what it is.

Thanks for the compliments, guys. It was a fun project.
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