Das Goat

[mndsm]

Meaning, there are a few members on here, some that are currently unemployed, that might be willing to rent said compressor for a small fee. Perhaps a member that you know, would try and convince you to say, purchase your own.

On another note, I had an idea this morning. So, the intake mani is sorta like the lungs of the car if you will... lungs are inside of the rib cage (unless you're playing Mortal Kombat). Methinks a rib cage on top of a lung looking paintjob on that mani might look sick as hell.

 

[Big Nate]

RIB CAGE INTAKE MANI FTMFW..... Tom every now and then a good idea escapes the never ending black hole of bad ideas.

 

[Picklz]

Tom, that does sound pretty sick. I'm trying to envision exactly how that would look but I like the general idea. Right now that or the red/black lightening combo are the front runners of everything I've seen/been able to think of.

 

[Picklz]

Some reference pictures

Stock valve covers + paint

Not a fan of these colors but this guy relocated his coils off teh valve covers in a similar fashion as I'm planning to do, gives a view of the other side of the engine and what the stock (painted) valve covers look like installed

 

[Slim]

You could paint the intake mani green and make it into a pickle...

 

[dmention7]

:roll:

 

[Picklz]

You could paint the intake mani green and make it into a pickle...

Best idea yet! ickle:

 

[mndsm]

Actually, it would look kinda rad, but the car would have to be green.

 

[dmention7]

Well... not necessarily.....

http://www.danielmclark.com/2007/10/26/cherry-flavored-pickles-the-koolickle-experiment/

 

[DrWebster]

I tried making Koolickles once, but I fucked it up. I need to give it another shot, maybe with grape instead of strawberry.

 

[Picklz]

So Thoughts,

Abear is no longer in business, they used to make these trick coil covers that integrated w/ the valve covers to look like large heads/valve covers. But I found out Edelbrock is making something sort of similar, they aren't quiet as nice but still seem to do a nice job of covering up the coils / cleaning things up.

I'm considering these vs relocating the coils and painting the valve covers because relocation on the drivers side of the motor is going to be a pita. My concern with these is how to finish them. Leave them be as black w/ the edelbrock logo and such, sand them down smooth and paint them (they are cast aluminum so sanding smooth would be a bit of a chore) or maybe making some very slightly raised cover to put over teh section w/ the writing and paint / airbrush / etch that w/ something on it.

so..opinons...go!
(Just the coil covers, not the intake manifold)

 

[mndsm]

I like em.

 

[Picklz]

I like em.

Tom, would you Leave em as is, try and sand/smooth/paint, or fab a panel to cover the flat section where edelbrock + ridges are? They come in as-cast (non painted) as well as polished and black. The logo on the polished ones seems to stand out less but I don't know if I want that much bling.

 

[mndsm]

Well that depends. Now if you wanted to go truefire across the board, those being all scalloped and whatnot would look like shit.... the flatter the better IMO. I don't know how they have the logo on there, but I assume it's a straight casting. You *could* mill off all the lumpy parts, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of buying Edelbrock parts that say Edelbrock on them. Likely what I would do is go with a flat backend to match the intake (of which I got a close look at on another LS1 last night, not NEARLY as scared of it now) and hand paint in the Edelbrock logos and the 3 stripes on it in GTO red. That wouldn't be all that difficult, and would really make the logos pop without being to ostentatious.

 

[Slim]

There's nothing wrong with an Edelbrock logo on a V8. I agree with Tom that black with red lettering/ridges would look hot. (rather than red covers) A little more understated since the car already has so much red.

 

[Picklz]

Alright I do dig the idea of having just the lettering done in red and leaving the covers black. I think mayhaps I will go that route. Then a black Intake w/ some red airbrushings of some sort mayhaps.

 

[niterydr]

I would just to that route Matt (Red letters with black covers). Feel like painting the coils perhaps?

I know I like the coils on the valve cover, the shorter the wire the better.

 

[Picklz]

I am considering getting those black edelbrock covers as they are coil covers made to look like valve covers, I hate the look of the coils on top of the valve covers so, that would relieve me from having to relocate and / or paint the coils.

 

[mndsm]

You know if you went with the lightning... and went with the edelbrock covers... what you could do is run the lettering the same color as the center of the lightning on the IM. Then what you do is run the basic fade around the lettering, and have lightning branch off of that.

 

[Picklz]

Tom, I think that's a killer idea.

I do believe I am going to order those in black along with some FAST fuel rails once I figure out what fittings I need to order.

Also, Transmission was ordered today ickle: their lead time is 7-10 days right now so gonna be a couple weeks yet before I can drive it, QQ.