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#41 ·
Sean485 said:
I wont be making any titanium or magnesium covers myself. Too expensive for materials, low demand, hard on tooling, etc. I am going to run a full cmm on a stock valve cover today and get all dimensions on it.
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I want one. :p
 
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#42 ·
A few concerns and requests.

Concerns.
Are these going to have any baffels? Those are extremely important for the valve cover.
Do you have the proper tap for the stock pcv? Its a BPT. If not a better solution would be nice

Requests.
Thick flanges for awesome sealing.
Maybe a thicker wall in the front that sits above a baffel that we can tap for -10 or larger fittings.
The option to not have the stock breather ports.

Very cool idea.
 
#45 ·
Of course I get oil in the catch can, but not "a lot".

Yes it would be more beneficial with a vacuum pump however to run a proper pump you're looking at 500 bucks just in parts and I really dont' race this enough to care.
 
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wishihadatalon said:
A few concerns and requests.

Concerns.
Are these going to have any baffels? Those are extremely important for the valve cover.
Do you have the proper tap for the stock pcv? Its a BPT. If not a better solution would be nice

Requests.
Thick flanges for awesome sealing.
Maybe a thicker wall in the front that sits above a baffel that we can tap for -10 or larger fittings.
The option to not have the stock breather ports.

Very cool idea.
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Chances are I will grind the rivets off the baffels of a stock cover and leave towers in the billet to bolt the baffels to.

Flanges will be very thick and far flatter than a cast cover could ever be.


I got the stock cover all dimensioned out, and got access to a autodesk inventor 8 so I have all the hole locations plotted out, I just need to figure out how to get it to 3D mode so I can plan out the height of everything. The cover is incredibly thin inside the spark plug well, just over a .25" thick at thickest point and .180" at thinnest so its no wonder they are easy to crack on the inside.
 
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Sean485 said:
Chances are I will grind the rivets off the baffels of a stock cover and leave towers in the billet to bolt the baffels to.

Flanges will be very thick and far flatter than a cast cover could ever be.


I got the stock cover all dimensioned out, and got access to a autodesk inventor 8 so I have all the hole locations plotted out, I just need to figure out how to get it to 3D mode so I can plan out the height of everything. The cover is incredibly thin inside the spark plug well, just over a .25" thick at thickest point and .180" at thinnest so its no wonder they are easy to crack on the inside.
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Really happy to hear that you are making some progress on this.
 
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I havent bought any stock yet, I think i'm going to make the prototype out of plastic or something incase I make an error in my program i'm not out 100+ dollars.
 
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