Tall ebay valve covers
03-23-2010, 02:15 AM
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I was very impressed with your offerings until I saw the GTO air intake kit that has nothing to block the hot engine bay air, just an open element air filter. At that point, I figured you probably don't necessarily know what you're making, you just make it look pretty.
03-23-2010, 10:56 AM
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Thats funny because back to back testing with it on a dyno and driving made no difference in intake air temps with a baffle or not. Besides we no longer make Cold air kits so you need not worry.
03-23-2010, 07:30 PM
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I just tried to install these on a buddies car. They are too tall to put on a f-body that still has a/c and heater box. There was no way the coil packs were going to fit on passenger side cover. You also will need longer plug wires and you have to massage you oil dipstick.
03-24-2010, 11:42 AM
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Regardless, in a drag race it costs about 4-6 lengths I've tested it, over and over.
Glad you aren't carrying them, the rest of the stuff looks awesome.
03-25-2010, 01:39 AM
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Ok. Two GTOs. Same mods to the cars (air intake only), both six speeds. We raced multiple times with the open element air filter on his car and a cold air inductions CAI on mine, then raced multiple times with an LPE CAI on his car. Only change. I went from winning by a LARGE margin, to losing by a frog's butt hair, over and over. And you can't tell me that having an open element right behind the radiator doesn't have an affect on IAT, especially in a car that seems to have little air exchange under the hood like a GTO. Other people around here do much the same, and buy an air filter and just remove the stock air box on their GTOs, and the result is much the same. Even if they had other mods I don't, I kicked the crap out of them by several cars until they fixed it. It makes a huge difference. Maybe it's not just the IAT, maybe it's that air gets caught on the housing and builds a higher-pressure area. I don't know. I just know that having a housing for the filter that seperates it from the engine bay makes the car much faster.
But if they dropped them, I guess it's a mute point.
But if they dropped them, I guess it's a mute point.
03-25-2010, 10:14 PM
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i just got mine and they look good minus needing to tap them for baffles the welds look good and used a straight edge to check them and look good on that also will bolt them up friday and see how they fit
07-09-2010, 06:16 AM
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Maybe he had a wing and a lot of contingency stickers to take full advantage of the hot air block off...
09-03-2013, 11:10 PM
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09-15-2013, 03:17 PM
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I have ebay covers on my car, they are junk. Like has been mentioned, coils won't clear on an fbody , they have no pcv provisions, the mounting bolts suck(mine are now replaced with Allen head bolts that stick out the top of the cover) and they leak bad!
The problem is, they lack the sheet metal piece on the inside of the stock cover that rests on the inside of the cylinder head to position the cover correctly. Iv bolted tabs to the outside/bottom of the heads to hold the covers in place so to speak. They work and don't leak but what a pain in the ***.
The problem is, they lack the sheet metal piece on the inside of the stock cover that rests on the inside of the cylinder head to position the cover correctly. Iv bolted tabs to the outside/bottom of the heads to hold the covers in place so to speak. They work and don't leak but what a pain in the ***.
