Thread: Any different valve covers out there? SBC

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Uptown83---As I said earlier "in one of my old rod magazines". I don't know which one, and I have about 1200. Here's what I remember---The Hemi valve cover fits right down over the top of the sbc valve cover. You have to make it as a 4 part deal---part #1 is a stock metal sbc rocker cover. Part#2 is a peice of 16 ga. sheet metal that has an outer profile that the Hemi rocker cover fits over snugly at the bottom lip which originally fit around the Hemi head.---this peice has a hole in it to fit down over top of the sbc rocker cover untill it rests on top of the flange around the bottom of the small block rocker cover. Part #3 is a shroud that extends down from the ends and exhaust manifold side of part #2 and is trimmed out to fit around the exhaust manifold. Part #4 is the Hemi valve cover itself, which fits over everything and attaches to part #2 with 6 screws that originally held the Hemi rocker cover in place. Part #2 also has 4 clearance holes thru it for the sparkplug wires to pass thru it. The sparkplug wires go from the distributor thru the top of the hemi rocker cover, past the chev small block rocker cover, and exit thru the holes in part #2 to hook onto the small block sparkplugs. A fair bit of work to make, but definately unique. In the article I read, somebody was going to market a kit which included all the parts and 2 old Hemi rocker covers, but the "kit" was going to be priced at over $500.00----I think if a person had access to a mig welder, an old pair of Hemi rocker covers, some basic fabricating skills and lots of cardboard to make templates, they could make the setup pretty cheap.