Chrome Engine Covers
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Melting Slicks
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Chrome Engine Covers
I see a lot of engine cover pieces made of chrome or polished stainless steel for the C6,C5,C4, but not much out there for the C3
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The covers like you see on the C6s etc are the lazy way out of detailing a custom for show. Instead of doing real detailing and chroming stuff like brake boosters, they just slap a cover over entire sections of the engine compartment. Yucch. Cheap looking and lazy. 
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After all these years, I guess I can see that a custom motor is no longer the thing 
Better now to just cover with plastic pieces and cookie-cutter stainless parts, then call that custom
Better now to just cover with plastic pieces and cookie-cutter stainless parts, then call that custom
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Try speedway motors they cater to the rodders but have quite a bit of generic bling you could probably use. After all it is a Chevy.
Personally I think a lot of that blingy cover stuff sold for later corvettes looks like garbage. I go to corvette shows and it seems all the c5-6 guys have that junk taped to the top of their components. Boring. But I guess plastic doesn't chrome well, so what's a guy to do.
The biggest single reason why I rebuilt my original gen1 engine instead of dropping in a crate lsx. I'm tastefully (my opinion) adding polished parts, mixed in with powder coated pieces, without going overboard.
I guess it's not cool anymore, but give me old school!
Scratch, looks sweet.
Personally I think a lot of that blingy cover stuff sold for later corvettes looks like garbage. I go to corvette shows and it seems all the c5-6 guys have that junk taped to the top of their components. Boring. But I guess plastic doesn't chrome well, so what's a guy to do.
The biggest single reason why I rebuilt my original gen1 engine instead of dropping in a crate lsx. I'm tastefully (my opinion) adding polished parts, mixed in with powder coated pieces, without going overboard.
I guess it's not cool anymore, but give me old school!
Scratch, looks sweet.
Last edited by Sunstroked; Jan 30, 2013 at 02:11 PM.
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