Engine Cover Necessary?
Pro
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Now add the same for the injectors coils and when engine is turned off engine bay heat soaks and the fuel left in injectors is also cooking and leaving deposits. Heat is trapped under covers and we all know what higher heat does.
Those covers are for the carshow types but for best of the engine is pitch those suckers.
Race Director
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From: Saint Albans, WV
Well your also not passing on that with the covers ON besides the coils getting cooked causing higher current draw but also cooking the fuel in the fuel rail.
Now add the same for the injectors coils and when engine is turned off engine bay heat soaks and the fuel left in injectors is also cooking and leaving deposits. Heat is trapped under covers and we all know what higher heat does.
Those covers are for the carshow types but for best of the engine is pitch those suckers.
Now add the same for the injectors coils and when engine is turned off engine bay heat soaks and the fuel left in injectors is also cooking and leaving deposits. Heat is trapped under covers and we all know what higher heat does.
Those covers are for the carshow types but for best of the engine is pitch those suckers.
Melting Slicks
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From: The Lost Borough, NYC
Le Mans Master
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From: West coast CA
I'm not. Most everything that distinguishes the current small-blocks from most sports car engines -- the low 2V pushrod heads with their characteristically small valve covers, the individual coil packs located near (but not over) the side-fitting plugs, even the front mid-engine location of the motor itself -- is rendered invisible by those covers.
If anything, the covers make the engine look more like a run-of-the-mill top-heavy, complex 4V DOHC V6 -- everything the Corvette V8 isn't. No thanks.
If anything, the covers make the engine look more like a run-of-the-mill top-heavy, complex 4V DOHC V6 -- everything the Corvette V8 isn't. No thanks.
