Identify These Valve Covers

ahh no..to the Heads

just a cover to keep the oil in, and the dirt out

 

I don't think o1racing03 has what it takes to fit in here...skin isn't thick enough.

 

Guess what. 67 350 came with script valve covers too but they were chrome

Block castings changed in 1968 to eliminate block draft tube so 1959 to 1967
Some 327 got script also. High Hp were chrome

 

Hop those things up a bit and you can win some races . . .



was that too comedic?

 

32 Rules finally got it right. Pick out a rubber jelly bean in the flavor of your choice.
Vettes usually came with the aluminum finned covers. Both the early staggered style and the later straight across style. Bottom of the line motors got the script covers, higher HP 327's and 350's got the other style shown with the sticker showing the HP. I had a 68 V-8 Camaro 350 that used those script covers so Chevy musta made a bunch of them. There are exceptions to every rule. Can't believe so many here don't know their CHEBBYs. Grin

 

There's a couple of different stampings of these script covers, too.

Some are more sloped from the valve cover gasket rail to the top, others are more perpendicular. I don't know whether the years were different or it was a supplier thing.

I have a pair of straight across patterns that don't match each other.

 

"straight" bolt valve covers first used midway thru 59 model year, last used in 67, they were used on the 283 engines in cars and trucks, and the 327 in trucks. Part number 3850049.

 

i have a set off of a 66 327 out of a C50 TRUCK truck was bought new so some 327s did have them

 

Uh... Those will fit any Chevy small block... Powdercoating won't make them fit any better though... If it's too thick, you might need longer bolts... If that doesn't work, you could change the heads... HA HA HA

 

Bingo!!

 

Fail.

 

Based on all the "How do I make this look old?" threads that pop up here. they are probably worth more all cruddy and rusty than they will be after powder coating... Sell 'em to a ratrodder.

 

Tell him he's on the Internet and he can look it up.

 

My post was just a joke...

 

It would show that your asking a serious question and not joking around, a conversation on the computer and a conversation in person are two different worlds, type doesnt show emotion.

My typing might seem like im lecturing you, im not, im just telling you why you got your smart ass answers you did!

have fun.

 

"uneducated"???? at least we can spell symmetrical, you unlettered bumpkin. Now, go back to your "powder coating the world" dream and leave REAL hot rodders alone.

 

Uh... Except they won't fit 55-59 staggered bolt Small Block Chevy heads

 

Go ahead and ask your questions as you see fit.
You got some smart ass answers because there's some "smart ass" jerks on this forum.
Disregard the "dick-heads"...they don't own this forum!
Welcome to you!

 

We had an early Chevy Parkwood wagon with a 283 and it had staggered bolt valve covers. Squirrel has it right, about mid 59 they went to symmetrical bolt hole valve covers. (Did I get my speeeellllllliiiinnnggg write?) I was thinking 60 model year, was close.

 

'Back in the day', it was common practice
for many of the major car manufactures
to emboss their valve covers with a
'Chevrolet' script, just to fool, confuse
and confound novices like you, who the
manufacturers knew would be trying to
figure out exactly what valve covers they
had, 40 or 50 odd years after the fact!
Any truly experienced old car expert
here though could tell you that those
"Chevrolet-script" valve covers are not
small block Chevy items at all, but rather,
they're the rare and super-valuable,
dealer-installed optional covers used only
on '58 through '64 Henways, 1959 through
'64 Packards, '62 through '65 DeSoto
Adventurers and '61 and up Edsel Citations
- all of which, believe it or not, shared the
same Hudson-supplied, Crosley Y-block
V8!!!!

Mart3406 ('Official Henway Motors
Corporate Historian and Archivist....and
now also, board-certified authority on all
circa-1962 and newer Packards, Edsels
and DeSotos')

 

FNGs getting a hard time is just how it goes around here...always has been...hope it will always be that way.

 

Says the guy who can't spell humor or symmetrical!

 

Uh... I was joking... If you read the rest of my post, I said you could change the heads!

 

Valve covers, like front timing covers were held on by slot-head screws from the factory.

 

Or JB Weld like mine.

 

Okay, I have my answer and am not perturbed the boneheads who have no life and do nothing but be smart arses on auto forums. There is nothing wrong with the way I spelled symmetrical. I'm surprised no one corrected the fact that I spelled American with a lower case "a" which I corrected.
I have no intentions of selling this. It is probably just going to go on the showroom wall as a demo.
For those of you interested I am a car guy having owned a 65 GTO, 73 Challenger 340, 75 Jag XJS/bb454 and am currently working on a 57 Nash Metro to break the land speed record at Bonneville this August.
I ran front wheel MiniStock cars in Nascar short tracks for 18 years and have 2 track championships and 55 Feature wins. Winning a Nascar feature win in any division at any track is an accomplishment that is difficult at best. How many do you naysayers have? Thanks to those who have welcomed me and whatever to the rest.

 

After looking at your quality pic i know they are not .................. Mine

 

show us what they look like after powdercoating

 

What I think is funny is that back in the day if you opened the hood and seen that it had painted valve covers you knew it was a low horse motor. Therefore the first thing you did was ditch the painted cave covers o not everybody else knew it was a low horse motor.
Now in nostalgia dream land we are putting them back on because they look old or someone thought that's the way we use to do it.

 

Old Oldsmobile valve covers for an early OHV Olds V8 made to look like another SBC. To try and trick people at car shows with something different