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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 07:09 AM
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I've seen the Thunder $200 kit, are there any others that look good?

I'm going to mill the valvecover bosses for the coil brackets flush. Do I need any of them left for the mod?

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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 10:39 AM
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I ground my bosses down smooth. The one thing I've noticed is thee are holes where the screws still go into the valve covers. I'm having them filled and will regrind and smooth them again.

I'm making my own plug wires, I got the re location kit from jay fisher pontiac.

To do it again, I'd say, buy the kit from thunder.
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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 10:46 AM
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Are you refilling them by welding them up?

That's what I was going to have done, but if there is a suitable filler I'd like to save that step.
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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 12:16 PM
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i just cut the bosses off my valvecovers yesterday
i guess the perimeter bolt covers are different from the centerbolts, cause when i cut the bosses off, the threaded holes dont go into the cover
so all i have to do is grind them down and polish the area up
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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by onyxxtreme
i just cut the bosses off my valvecovers yesterday
i guess the perimeter bolt covers are different from the centerbolts, cause when i cut the bosses off, the threaded holes dont go into the cover
so all i have to do is grind them down and polish the area up
Yeah, I got centerbolts.
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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by PacerX
Are you refilling them by welding them up?

That's what I was going to have done, but if there is a suitable filler I'd like to save that step.
exactly what I'm doing..

I can take some before and after pics for you if you like..
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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 08:53 PM
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moose: are you gonna tig weld em?
I finished grinding down my valvecovers today, and i have 1 threaded hole on each cover, left after grinding away
i havent decided to weld it up or fill it in with an epoxy of some sort

i will say this though.....this work is very damn time consuming.
Took about 45 minutes total to cut all 20 (combined) bosses off, and grind them down.
Then about 1.5 hours on each cover to smooth them out, and i still have some more work to do on that
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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 10:35 PM
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JB Weld the holes.
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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 05:06 AM
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Yeah I have access to a welder so I will eld them up, but J-B weld might work also..

it took me while also.. I just took my time and had a few beers. I've got holes at every bung.. so I'm going to weld them up..
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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 12:02 PM
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there was a write up on a home made kit... used some threaded rod end and stand offs with bolts..... looked good from what I remembered...now if someone could point me to the right direction of the web page it was on....
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http://www.ls1camaro.net/sections.ph...ticle&artid=68
theres a very good version
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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by onyxxtreme
Zip ties... blech. I looked at it closely, but I don't think I want my coils flapping in the breeze like that.
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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 07:52 PM
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well once you get them together you could use a different mounting system... take what is there and make it better....This is my idea... threaded rods with some electrical standoffs(instead of wire ties) and then some polished covers with the wires coming out of them.. bling bling mounted to the cowl....

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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 09:23 PM
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If you use the wire tie method a hotchkiss STB won't clear them. Other then that it's cheap and doesn't work too bad.
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Old Oct 28, 2003 | 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by redrumss
well once you get them together you could use a different mounting system... take what is there and make it better....This is my idea... threaded rods with some electrical standoffs(instead of wire ties) and then some polished covers with the wires coming out of them.. bling bling mounted to the cowl....
good idea
the way im doing it is gonna be blingin too, i hope
im building an aluminum "box", with only the ends of the coils sticking out, so all you see is basically a shiney box with the plug wires coming out of it
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Old Oct 28, 2003 | 10:30 AM
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Hrumph.... I wish we could sketch this up and post it as an attachement...

Where do I get plug wires?
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Old Oct 28, 2003 | 10:41 AM
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anyone who sells Taylor wires, should sell the "universal kit"
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Maker sure the coils get some ventilation though.. maybe only cover the bottm and the front.....

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Old Oct 29, 2003 | 11:51 AM
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good thinking
i was gonna make it cover everything except the back, but now i might get some holes or slashes milled in the sides
hmmm....
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I made mine with threaded rods and used nylon nuts for stand offs. Made my own wires from MSD LT1 wires and a universal kit with straight plug boots.

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