Faux/Fake valve covers

^^ You're really going to hate this!!!

 

Fake valve covers, injection set ups, blowers, etc., is lame because you're not fooling anyone who matters. There's no currency in fooling anyone who doesn't know better. Just be proud of what you put together and what you're running.

I run a Chevy in my Olds. 99% of the people who have something to say about it don't have a car nearly as nice, or as is more likely, don't have a car at all.

 

In the car hobby, if something you do with your car makes you happy, screw what others think! That includes anything others want to call "fake".
If you want it and it makes you happy, go for it, and enjoy your ride.

 

I have a friend that has had her breasts "enhanced", her ass "Brazilian'ed" and her teeth capped and whitened. Very, very pretty!

BUT...fake FI, QC, blowers and a 3rd dangling pedal for no f'ing reason? Hard Pass.

 

Sounds painful!

 

Not really faux or fake but interesting for a newer valve cover to have see through tops, these would look good on a blower motor I think.

 

I have had two 1986 Olds Cutlass's that left the factory with 305 cu in "corporate" engines that are better known as a 305 SBC's. I have also had a 1981 Buick Regal left the factory with a 267 cu in "corporate" engine that is also better known as a SBC.

Since GM itself sold Olds and Buick vehicles with SBC engines in them, there is absolutely nothing wrong with putting Olds or Buick labelled valve covers on any SBC. There is literally NOTHING fake about them. It's like putting Corvette covers on a SBC ... what's the big deal?

 

Don't forget Canadian Pontiacs that came with Chevy engines, as well.

 

So the story I heard goes something like this here; GM was fazing out the HP crap when Smokey and the Bandit fanned the dying, gas pump beaten down flames of muscle car people and Pontiac started cranking out T/As...more cars than they had engines for. Many 77- T/As come with Pontiac W-72 400s but many others were built with Olds 403s. They also painted all of the engines Pontiac Blue... initially.

Some consumers claimed they were duped into buying Olds powered T/As as a result, and sued. Enter the new engine color GM Corporate Blue. Not as pretty as the Pontiac color but now they weren't being accused of conning someone with a "rattle can transplant". Every engine (Chevy, Olds, Ponchos) was now Blue. They also got slightly different call outs on the shaker scoop, the W-72 got one that read T/A 6.6 while the Olds and the low HP 400 got one that said 6.6 Liter. You can check this at your next cruise in and be informed! People will feel sorry for you for knowing such mundane facts and may give you money so you will leave. Bandit beer money.

Even though Corporate Blue is the correct color for restoring a W-72, 77 SE T/A, but I usually paint them Pontiac Blue out of respect for the brand.

 

There was a comment about fake blowers with carbs inside the case,,Ed Roth's Druid Princess had the best setup I ever seen I never realized it was a phoney till Fritz Schenck posted pics of it