Check out the valve covers for the wag

Ive had these old merc valve covers for a while just waiting to make them cool. My brother in law (new Hamber Soundguyslim) and his buddy Bucko worked their paint and stripe magic on them. What ya think, Im thrilled with them and now have to make the rest of the engine look a little better, you know like no more blue plug wires and heater hoses that are all one color. And I think its time to add the performer intake also.

Brad

 

Nice

 

Thats got cool plus.FE's are neato

 

Crazy about a Mercury.

 

nice stuff..we'll talk about those wires next....what's the air cleaner gonna be? need something to match vc's.

 

Kick ***, looks great.

 

Those are awesome!!!!

 

Ya, thats an old pic, the wiring is all loomed up and clean now. Im not sure about the air cleaner, Ive always had an open element but the K&N is not traditional at all. If I stick with the open Im thinking it should be black and striped but am open for ideas, got any/

Brad

 

well ,those valve covers scream caddy for an aircleaner,,,but that may be done to death. early caddy,black and striped.

 

those look great

 

I think a Caddy air cleaner would look good as well. Painted and striped to match of course.

 

No air cleaner it will only cover the work done on the covers. Just a nice spun aluminum velocity stack.

Do we still refer to your engine as FE or is it a ME?

 

Very nice!

 

Good point, a large air cleaner will cover the striping on the intake side of the valve covers. Does a velocity stack even have a filter, I drive this thing all over dusty *** iowa so it needs a good filter. I found these valve covers on a 65 ford wagon at the local yard, they had all the bolts installed, but when I pulled them off it was clear that eng had sat with no covers, you couldnt see the valves inside the springs for all the rust, I only paid 20 bucks for them!

Brad

 

Wow!! Smokin to say the least, nice treatment dudes. Love'm!! ~Sololobo~

 

I'm usually not a big fan of pinstriping, but I gotta say those look *****in.
Good work!

 

That looks great!

 

Very cool. Hard to find covers and good job painting them.

 

Man those are pretty spiffy.

Doc.

 

You don't allways have to use aftermarket parts to dress up your ride, with some extra elbow grease, factory parts can look just as good. Very nice work, will be doing something similar with my mercury y-block covers.

 

How about this air cleaner.......


.....of course you would need the intake too.

 

those look great brad , cant wait to check em out ! hows the rest of the wagon coming ?

 

They Are Beautiful !!!! Advanced Plating chromed a set for the 390 crossram in my 57 Fairlane G***er. Gonna stripe them, but haven't gotten there yet. As if these covers weren't impossible to find already, NOW everybody's gonna want 'em. I Love The Striping Job !!!

 

Slow and not very sure! Between the new baby and the cold temps I am way behind on the short list of winter projects. I will get it though, dont worry. I cant wait for the neg 1 high temps and snow to go away and for summer to get here. You gonna try to make it up this way this spring, like for vintage torque fest? Im gonna try to organize a little cruise over to that deal for the eastern iowa guys.

Brad

 

yep planning on it !

 

Very nice - got my gears turning again, I need to do some sprucing up myself...

 

Nothing against the GM air cleaner idea because most all the stock Ford ones look like ****, but the Caddy thing has been done to death.

Staying in the ford camp, the '83 twin snorkel four barrel Muskrat GT one (also could find them Fairmonts, just not as common), might look good painted up to match your rocker covers.

Going back to the GM idea, any late '60s four barrel one would look great, are fairly common even now, a lot of them are about 14" in diameter with a flat lid, and it's not hard to add a second snorkel to the easier to find single snorkel ones. If you wanted a smaller one, I once found a small diameter one (about 10" with about a 1" or 2" raised lid and a single snorkel) for my Dodge van off an early '70s Buick six cylinder.

 

That is a real steal some Merc fans are probably gnashing their teeth that they missed them.

It was just a thought on the stack time to get out the non-traditional K&N catalog and find a small filter.

 

awsome!!!! im glad everybody seem to be diggn my skills!! LOL get your air claeaner figured out and and sent to me and ill have it ready to bring up in may for the el grande fiesta of torque!!!!

 

great job on the valve covers they are a work of art