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Millionaire Playboy
I got some tall valve covers a couple months ago for when I finally get ready to slap on the AFR heads. I'm going to need the tall covers when I finally get that set of Comp full roller rockers. I was then, as I have been my entire freakin' life, been on a budget, so I bought these used roundy-round covers. Now most of you know how they normally come, one plain and one with two breathers in it. That didn't work for me so I used my favorite tool, my Dremel, and made a second hole in each. I then transplanted one of the tubes. The remaining hole in each will be filled with a push in breather. Although I am thinking really hard about cutting my breather tubes in half and mounting the second set in the newly created holes for a grand total of four, count them 4, breathers! (hey, if two are good, for must be better, right?)
So anyway, that leaves me with these generic looking valve covers, like this:
So I think to myself, "self, there has to be something we can do to make these things look nicer. What if we (I use the plural when I talk to myself) polish them and have a machine shop mill some flames into them?" Well, that obviously would look nice, but I refer back to the whole "being-on-a-budget" part of things. Then I remember I still have two Sting Ray badges left over from that '75 I parted out. I kept them because I was thinking really hard about actually putting them on the '81. But I knew even if I did, it would only be temporary since I intend to remove all badging for the final product and have everything air-brushed on.
So then I think, "hey, I'll be those badges would look super cool just on the valve covers".
Here's a mock-up:
I like it. I think I will like it even more once I polish the covers. Now my only concern is actually mounting them on the valve covers. I could drill the holes, that's easy enough. My concern then is trusting the cheesy push nuts on the back of the posts, considering a failure means that thing would fall through the engine.
My other option would be to cut the posts off and just glue them on.
So I'm enlisting your opinions. How would you attach these badges if you were doing it?
And feel free to let me know what you think of the idea anyway.
Thanks!
So anyway, that leaves me with these generic looking valve covers, like this:
So I think to myself, "self, there has to be something we can do to make these things look nicer. What if we (I use the plural when I talk to myself) polish them and have a machine shop mill some flames into them?" Well, that obviously would look nice, but I refer back to the whole "being-on-a-budget" part of things. Then I remember I still have two Sting Ray badges left over from that '75 I parted out. I kept them because I was thinking really hard about actually putting them on the '81. But I knew even if I did, it would only be temporary since I intend to remove all badging for the final product and have everything air-brushed on.
So then I think, "hey, I'll be those badges would look super cool just on the valve covers".
Here's a mock-up:
I like it. I think I will like it even more once I polish the covers. Now my only concern is actually mounting them on the valve covers. I could drill the holes, that's easy enough. My concern then is trusting the cheesy push nuts on the back of the posts, considering a failure means that thing would fall through the engine.
My other option would be to cut the posts off and just glue them on.
So I'm enlisting your opinions. How would you attach these badges if you were doing it?
And feel free to let me know what you think of the idea anyway.
Thanks!
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