Suggestions on engine detail

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09-25-2005, 10:21 AM
Stu Cool

Suggestions on engine detail

You folks gave me some great ideas when I was re-doing my engine compartment last year, I'd appreciate your input again. This winter I am swapping out the Chevy 350 in my Studebaker for an LS1. I want it to look as good as it will perform, so am planning ahead and looking at options. In the link below there are photos of how the engine compartment looks now and a couple of examples of how others have done theirs. I definitely plan to create some custom covers with the Studebaker logo, but have some choices to make. Things to decide, should the rail covers match the car's paint or contrast like my valve covers do now? Should I leave the intake natural charcoal color, or paint it like the pictures of the truck in the link? If I paint them all to match the car, is that too much red? I could also do some custom valve covers and relocate the coils, but that creates a whole new set of challenges that I don't want to tackle with this project. Appreciate your input, you had some great ideas last time

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pat_di.../ph//my_photos

Pat
09-25-2005, 10:27 AM
Matt167

Contrast the covers with the same yellow as the 350 valve covers. With the intake, go diffrent and have it chromed, if it is a plastic cover like I think it is, there is places with a chroming method to chrome plastic.
09-25-2005, 10:54 AM
Dave Severson

Pat, I have a really lousy sense of coordinating colors so I would say do everything in body color and polish the aluminum pieces. When are you going to get started on the changeover??? Make sure you keep us up to date on pics and info.
09-25-2005, 12:44 PM
Stu Cool

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Originally posted by Dave Severson
Pat, I have a really lousy sense of coordinating colors so I would say do everything in body color and polish the aluminum pieces. When are you going to get started on the changeover??? Make sure you keep us up to date on pics and info.

I have two more events to go to in October, then the swap will start. I'm doing prep work now, pulled the pan of the LS1 yesterday so I can send it off to be notched, got my motor mount adapters and test fitted them. I have a lot of pieces sitting waitiing, LS6 intake and valve springs, 2800 stall converter, 3.80 gears & trac-loc. If I decide to paint the intake, will need to do that before swapping it out. I've also been selling off some of the LS1 pieces I won't need to pay for stuff I do. Going to order my fuel tank and pump this week, and will being doing measurements for the custom engine harness. I am really excited about this as you can tell.

Thanks to both of you for the ideas, Matt I am not too sure on the chrome. The car has almost no chrome on it now, so I am not sure if chroming it would follow my theme.

keep the ideas coming folks

Pat
09-25-2005, 01:54 PM
Matt167

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Originally posted by Stu Cool
I have two more events to go to in October, then the swap will start. I'm doing prep work now, pulled the pan of the LS1 yesterday so I can send it off to be notched, got my motor mount adapters and test fitted them. I have a lot of pieces sitting waitiing, LS6 intake and valve springs, 2800 stall converter, 3.80 gears & trac-loc. If I decide to paint the intake, will need to do that before swapping it out. I've also been selling off some of the LS1 pieces I won't need to pay for stuff I do. Going to order my fuel tank and pump this week, and will being doing measurements for the custom engine harness. I am really excited about this as you can tell.

Thanks to both of you for the ideas, Matt I am not too sure on the chrome. The car has almost no chrome on it now, so I am not sure if chroming it would follow my theme.

keep the ideas coming folks

Pat

Prolly right, the only chrome you have on the 350 I notice is the air cleaner, and chroming the LS1 intake might be too much of a chrome accent.