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What are some easy, and inexpensive things you can add to dress up the engine bay? I plan on adding a hood liner with the Corvette flags, and if the car I buy doesn't already come with them, I'd like to add the red valve cover covers (what are they called)? Where's a good place to buy these parts?
What are some easy, and inexpensive things you can add to dress up the engine bay? I plan on adding a hood liner with the Corvette flags, and if the car I buy doesn't already come with them, I'd like to add the red valve cover covers (what are they called)? Where's a good place to buy these parts?
Red valve covers came on the Z06, but you could paint yours using some paint from the parts store. Otherwise scour the parts section here and you can probably come across a set for rather cheap. There are several things you can do to dress up the engine bay, just depends how crazy you wanna get, carbon fiber, painted, polished, or a combination of them. Quite a few vendors sell some fantastic products.
What are some easy, and inexpensive things you can add to dress up the engine bay? I plan on adding a hood liner with the Corvette flags, and if the car I buy doesn't already come with them, I'd like to add the red valve cover covers (what are they called)? Where's a good place to buy these parts?
What are some easy, and inexpensive things you can add to dress up the engine bay? I plan on adding a hood liner with the Corvette flags, and if the car I buy doesn't already come with them, I'd like to add the red valve cover covers (what are they called)? Where's a good place to buy these parts?
Corvettes (I think) are generally pretty plain under the hood, except for our appreciation for the machinery itself. A lot of black rubber and plastic, unlike, say a Ferrari (you get a lot of cool-looks for an extra $ 200K).
I was lucky enough to buy a C5 at a great price, and some previous owner had spent maybe $ 1000+ under the hood. All this simply sticks on w/ velcro, but I think it looks good:
the best engine bay is a clean engine bay, start there and then troll the classifieds for parts that pop up
First, spend a couple of hours hitting every nook and cranny. A clean engine bay looks better than one dressed up with little trinkets w/o the attention to detail.
Also, don't forget that sometimes less = more. Don't go overboard and make it gaudy. There is one yellow corvette on this forum that went waaay too far in that direction. The owner shall remain nameless.....
Shakey
Last edited by Shakeydeal; Oct 21, 2016 at 10:22 AM.
I was lucky enough to buy a C5 at a great price, and some previous owner had spent maybe $ 1000+ under the hood. All this simply sticks on w/ velcro, but I think it looks good
There is one yellow corvette on this forum that went waaay too far in that direction. The owner shall remain nameless.....
Shakey
I think I know who you are referring too... Unfortunately I think there are many more on this forum with the same. To each their own. I started going down that path, but now I'm course correcting and going with the naked approach.
The OP did say inexpensive ???? I bought all my Stainless as a kit from e-bay for 300 dollars, all the painted stuff I did myself with base/coat clear coat spray cans from Automotive touch-up.com !!
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Dressing up the engine bay
And depending on what color you end up with, someone might be selling some used dress up pieces that would compliment the color.
It is that too, but the covers are commonly referred to as FRCs as well. Its all about the context of the message.
Unfortunately I think there are many more on this forum with the same. To each their own. I started going down that path, but now I'm course correcting and going with the naked approach. 
