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| | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 93 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 93 | Hi all, I'm looking to dress up my engine compartment and would like to find a nice aluminum valve cover and side plate. The problem is it's for a GMC 270 engine and I can't come up with anything in my catalogs. Does anyone make these for the 270 engine?
Thanks, Don | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | I've been looking too, with no luck. It seems GMC owners got left out in the cold on this one. If you find something be sure to post it. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 | There should be some of that stuff around, they used to run some of those old Jimmy sixes at Indy way back in the 50's. I read that in Hot Rod or Popular Hot Rodding sometime in the past, the had an article on hot rodding the old staight sixes. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 175 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 175 | Did you check with Langdon's Stovebolt Motor Company? Seems like there ought to be stuff around. At one time the 270 jimmy was a very popular hot rod engine.
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We don't need no stinking V-8s!!
| | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 | Sand your originals to bare metal, polish them and then have them covered in a high temp clear powdercoat. I did that with my 235 cover and am biased, but I think it looks cool. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 93 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 93 | I've checked Langdon's, Patrick's, and every other potential source I could come up with and have come up with nothing. If there are any out there they would be old because there are none being made these days. I'm thinking it's either chrome or paint, but that's not my first choice.
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