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Old Aug 11, 2013 | 09:06 AM
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seems its getting pretty popular and everyone likes to see different ways of doing things, so here is mine.







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Old Aug 11, 2013 | 12:54 PM
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Where'd those valve covers come from?
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couple more from today
this one came out pretty good





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Where'd those valve covers come from?
ordered them from jegs
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Old Aug 11, 2013 | 08:04 PM
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Awesome and makes under the hood clean
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Absolutely LOVE IT, I've been bouncing back and forth on this. I didn't totally understand what's involved and how hard it is to do. What all exactly is needed too,thanks. L8R ZFLASH
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Absolutely LOVE IT, I've been bouncing back and forth on this. I didn't totally understand what's involved and how hard it is to do. What all exactly is needed too,thanks. L8R ZFLASH
And would really like to know the process too.
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I love the old school valve cover lettering. It brings back memories!
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 03:52 PM
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That is cool as heck !
I have seen others do that.

Is there a kit for parts to do this ?

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Wow, really cleans it up.
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Lookin good! Now take care of the wires, fuel rails, evap system, etc...





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Wow, really cleans it up.
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Originally Posted by Mike94ZLT1
Lookin good! Now take care of the wires, fuel rails, evap system, etc...









Much better than the ever popular plastic crap that people use to hide all remnants of an internal combustion engine.

Same valve covers. I had them done in Candy Apple Red powder coat but let my engine builder change them up a little.

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Much better than the ever popular plastic crap that people use to hide all remnants of an internal combustion engine.

Same valve covers. I had them done in Candy Apple Red powder coat but let my engine builder change them up a little.

Love it! Ever think about painting your intake black, the "FAST" and "LSX" lettering silver and leaving the "R" red?

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Originally Posted by Mike94ZLT1
Love it! Ever think about painting your intake black, the "FAST" and "LSX" lettering silver and leaving the "R" red?
That would be a slippery step towards the Form over Function side.

I'll leave it like it is.

Actually, it looks really good as is. I just need to get some good pics of the car overall after all this time.
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im still in the middle of doing alot of work to the car. i still need to install my custom fuel system and holley fuel rails. once i do that the evap stuff will be removed. that's if i can figure out how to do it safely...

for those that are interested in doing this mod it is very time consuming, cutting the coil wires back takes some patients but its well worth it.
there are so many ways of accomplishing it that i can list a guide of parts i used but there are a million ways to do it. the hardest part is making the new wires
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Originally Posted by StealthFRC
im still in the middle of doing alot of work to the car. i still need to install my custom fuel system and holley fuel rails. once i do that the evap stuff will be removed. that's if i can figure out how to do it safely...

for those that are interested in doing this mod it is very time consuming, cutting the coil wires back takes some patients but its well worth it.
there are so many ways of accomplishing it that i can list a guide of parts i used but there are a million ways to do it. the hardest part is making the new wires
For those of us less enterprising:

http://www.casperselectronics.com/st...x=0&search.y=0
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