Coolest Valve Cover?

[Collin]

i believe he started the thread lol

he is m30b35 swapped ;)

LoL, I didnt notice his sig.

[RickSloan]

i believe he started the thread lol

he is m30b35 swapped ;)

edit: my VC and Plenum

[Collin]

Paging the guy with the plaid valve cover.

Edit:


NOT MINE if it's yours come and take credit and please post the finished product, I can't find your project thread to see the end result!

[mikeedler]

thats supposed to be a Evo cover/plenum right? how come the plug wires are not red? fake?



wow, real evo covers fade eh? bmw screw up?


how come everyone that paints their m20 valve covers black and polish em, never do the same to the intake manifold? is it hard to remove or something?

the plug wire ENDS are not red because only the EVO III had red ends(cables were still black), and the white valve cover with the motorsport stripes was an EVO II thing.
all of the real EVO II cars I have seen were also yellowed out, but that could be some of the wax crap that gets sprayed on them, and after a while all white color will yellow with that much heat in the area.



I have painted all of my cars M20 intakes black too-- just like the Alpina cars-- but yes, it takes more than a 7th grade education to pull a intake, so most don't do it-- and the replacement gaskets cost more that 5 dollars too.



heres the valve cover on my M3 before I painted the car orange-- I had the fake EVO look rockin.





and here's a pic of my turbo cars intake black--- before it was finished and running.

[YAN-3]

how come everyone that paints their m20 valve covers black and polish em, never do the same to the intake manifold? is it hard to remove or something?

as i recall its a pain in the butt

[smonkbmw]

thats supposed to be a Evo cover/plenum right? how come the plug wires are not red? fake?

dont these yellow after a while? i always though they were neat, untill i saw 2 of them in person, 1 was completely yellowed out and the other had bad yellowing around the letters. looked like poop.

wow, real evo covers fade eh? bmw screw up?


how come everyone that paints their m20 valve covers black and polish em, never do the same to the intake manifold? is it hard to remove or something?

[E30SPDFRK]

[asubimmer]

dont these yellow after a while? i always though they were neat, untill i saw 2 of them in person, 1 was completely yellowed out and the other had bad yellowing around the letters. looked like poop.

depends what kind of paint was used. The ones that Korman sells don't yellow but they aren't even close to cheap

[asubimmer]

Thanks for the tip. :roll:

I'm not talking about a powdercoated valve cover, I'm referring to something along the lines of this...



See? Crinkle coat.

I know what you were talking about jackass. Search. There are TONS of pictures on r3v of EVACTLY what you are asking for.

[YAN-3]

hah i like how i started a thread like this a long ago and everybody told me to search but this guy can have it. but the coolest in my opinion is this.

dont these yellow after a while? i always though they were neat, untill i saw 2 of them in person, 1 was completely yellowed out and the other had bad yellowing around the letters. looked like poop.

[TDE30]

Indeed, it belongs to my father.

[91bmw318]

^^ S38???

Dan.

[TDE30]

really? thats the MOST common setup.

Thanks for the tip. :roll:

I'm not talking about a powdercoated valve cover, I'm referring to something along the lines of this...



See? Crinkle coat.

[kamotors]

plain toast?

[euroshark]

You know what all of you guys running cast iron manifolds need? POR-20. It's a high temp (1400 degrees-ish) coating that you paint right onto the manifolds and it's silvery like all of the pretty coated headers. It cleans up the engine bay like you wouldn't believe!