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I just cut the wire, left the sensors in there. My little black caps kept popping out when the motor was warm, had to grind a little off them and used some glue to get them to stay. I didnt like the look without the caps. A plate could be easily made, several post and pics on here of some.....
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Just remember if you have a newer block like an LY6 6.0 for example, That the valley cover has 8 orings that seal off the ports in the valley that would feed the displacement on demand in one of those motors.
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If you were to make a plate for the newer motors I would recomend tapping/ and plugging the 8 oil holes under the cover to seal them. But again, thats only for the newer DOD acceptable engines. Eric L
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If I had to do it over again I'd take the time to have some aluminum plate cut to fit. The Edelbrock plate is needlessly thick.
I had to "massage" my old-style LS1 coolant pipe to make it fit under the Performer RPM manifold. I'm suing the old-style pipe because the motor is going in a road race car and using all four steam ports is better than two.
I had to "massage" my old-style LS1 coolant pipe to make it fit under the Performer RPM manifold. I'm suing the old-style pipe because the motor is going in a road race car and using all four steam ports is better than two.
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I made mine with 1/4" aluminum plate. The front and sides are staright, so a local metal fab shop sheared the straight edge then I traced the rear section and cut it with a jigsaw. Worked perfect.