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Re: Valve cover

To: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>, Goracef1@cs.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Valve cover
From: jello@ida.net
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:16:08 US/Mountain
If you don't want to leave a heater core in there unconnected, you could 
put in a blanking plate (like an MGA without a heater), and take out the 
heater.  Or you could take a lesson from the early cars, and run the 
heater hose next to the valve cover, instead of on top of the valve cover.

> Brian,
>   The pipe that runs lengthwise down the valve cover moves water from the
> radiator hose to the heater core. The water then goes from heater core to
> the valve on the right side of the engine above the distributor.    Since
> the valve closes that water passage anyway, I don't se why you could not
> simply not use it.  Fit a different hose to the radiator, one without the
> heater's extension, and at the other end you could put a blanking plate
> over the heater valve opening on the block.  That would still leave a
> heater core with two exposed pipes sticking out.  
>   All the other hoses, if any on your engine,  are emissions related, so
> you would have to sort out what could be rerouted. 
> Bob
> 
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:35:41 EDT Goracef1@cs.com writes:
> >                  Hey List,
> >            I want to dress up the engine a bit on my 70 BGT and was 
> > thinking 
> > of putting an aluminum valve cover on.Question I have is this,what 
> > exactly 
> > does the piping or lines that run over top of the cover do?Are they 
> > just heater 
> > related and if so can I just get rid of em if I never run the car 
> > with heat 
> > during the winter anyway?Would look much cleaner without em I think 
> > but do not 
> > want to remove things may cause issues of course.
> > 
> >                  Any thoughts would be great!
> >                                     Brian Ichter
> >                                     Plainfield,CT

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