Re: [T3] empi valve covers or not?

["Ron Arnold" <type3@bellsouth.net>]

Hops up on the soap box :)

i can tell you i have a full chrome kitt on my baja as for heat it does run
hotter i am assumeing because the nyolon push rod tubes i put in melted ;)
after switching them to alum tubes i havent had any heat problems my engine
runs rather cold and its normaly driven 70 75mph everywhere it goes..

gives soap box back and DUCKS!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Wolfe" <russella@prairieinet.net>
To: "type3" <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [T3] empi valve covers or not?


>
> Subject: RE: [T3] empi valve covers or not?
>
>
> > Like I said, mine don't leak.  Never have!  Careful fitting, using
quality
> > parts, taking it easy all help.  The OEMs are fine.  They are a complete
> > PITA on my engine and don't have a decent flat surface for breathers so
I
> > like the bolt-ons.  The ones I have are aluminum, finned, and
bead-blasted
> > to take the chrome off so they have a perfect, dull, surface :)  I use
the
> > stock-style cork gaskets cuz they're the best.
> >
> > Toby
> >
> Why do you need breathers on your valve covers?? With a properly fitting
> engine, there should be minimal blow-by. VW got by for years without any
> added breathers. They only added them to the heads to meet the CA emmision
> standards in 1973.
> If I remember right, Leon's engine had chromed engine tin on it when he
got
> it. He found that shinny surfaces on the engine reflected heat back onto
the
> engine, and made it run hotter. Did you ever wonder why VW chose flat
black
> for their tin work and valve covers. It helps to disipate heat. This
> includes through the valve covers. The shinny inside surface of the
aluminum
> valve cover would reflect heat back onto the heads instead of letting it
> pass on through.
> If you are not out for show, and just an average Joe Blow dirver, there is
> no advantage to the aluminum valve covers. The stock valve covers,
installed
> properly, work just fine. Just make sure that the valve cover is not
sprung,
> or the pring bale is not bent, and they will go for many miles without a
> leak.
>
> OK, end of my soap box.
>
> Russ Wolfe
> russw@classicvw.org
> http://www.classicvw.org/
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe