engine cover design
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engine cover design
Just curios, is the engine cover everyone is painting a copy of a real engine, or just a design that the engineers came up with?
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Do you have a link or at least a pic of this cover?
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The engine cover I'm speaking about. Where the corvette is spelled I can see being valve covers, but the center strip eludes me, is it some form of intake, is it completely fictional. Just curios how the design came about?
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^ Yep, just a cover to make the engine compartment look better.
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They still look like cast plastic to me. If I were bothering to swap for something, I'd pitch the plastic altogether and fab my own out of aluminum from scratch as I've done with others over the years... but admittedly on the down-side of my 8th-decade ir's just not worth the trouble for me on today's productions cars.
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They still look like cast plastic to me. If I were bothering to swap for something, I'd pitch the plastic altogether and fab my own out of aluminum from scratch as I've done with others over the years... but admittedly on the down-side of my 8th-decade ir's just not worth the trouble for me on today's productions cars.