Clearance for Valve Covers

An Article by Tim Ronak
January, 2002

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How to Build Clearance to Easily Remove the Aluminum Valve Covers (cont.)

In the end it is a very clean modification that I will be painting soon. The finished product can be seen in Figure 8 prior to preparation for refinishing…that is the next project.

Figure 8

Extra Figure of the tight Valve-Cover clearance on the Passenger side shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9

Figure 10 shows some clearancing completed on the crossmember to ensure the Aviaid Road Racing Oil pan would fit.

Figure 10

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