Clear valve covers

[Smithky]

How to make your engine bay cooler than anyone else! Clear valve covers! | Epic Internet

what you think?

 

[ari666]

honestly? .

 

[cor3yz]

Pretty cool.
Apparently you can get clear distributor caps. But they smoke up straight away and crack a lot

 

[ari666]

so:

perspex has this wonderful habbit of "crazing" when it gets hot then cools rapidly (winter) so i reckon those covers will last about 6 months before they are cracked to ****, THEN when they crack their structural integrity will be reduced significantly and oil will start to weep, plus they will cloud up in a few days due to the abrasive nature of fluid running over an object.

not to mention the fact that the hole spacing between the bolts that fasten the rockers on is BARELY enough to keep a cork gasket sealed with an ally or SS rocker cover when you start building up crankcase pressures from high heat and high RPM. if the mounting bolts dont outright crack/perish, then the center of the gap between the bolts will certainly flex and youll have lovely oil running all over your shiny new extractors.


id love to see a vid of these covers after 2 weeks of daily use.

 

[SS-REX]

Looks great if you never use your car for daily duties maybe for show cars?.

 

[commodore665]

It would be good in a show car , but on a daily driver ?? , yeah nah .


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[Demonica]

Looks good until you start the car.........

 

[SavVYute]

Your average Commodore owner.....

1. Spend afternoon fitting new clear valve covers.

2. Get in and start car.

3. Get out and find you can't see anything through it because of all the black engine oil.

 

[ari666]

or post a thread on JC and say "i noticed a significant increase in throttle response"

 

[wraith]

Less weight = less stress on the valve train because of plexiglass valve covers.