Custom Valve Cover engraving

90lxcoupe · Dec 9, 2008

So a friend of mine is serving overseas in Iraq right now until February and i decieded to pick up a set of blank Billet Specialties valve covers for his 1979 Malibu, and engrave the airforce logo onto them. The only pic i have at the moment is from my camera phone while the cover was on the CNC machine at work. I'll take some better ones later...

And here's the 'bu... has a 383 stroker, dart heads, pretty good sized cam(around .600 lift), a 200-4r trans, grand national rearend with 4.10's and has run an 11.90 at 112mph... and the car is the cleannnnnest malibu of those years ive ever seen. it also has 17's since these pics were taken

Beasty306GT · Dec 9, 2008

Sick dude

Beasty306GT · Dec 9, 2008

opps double post

1991notchbackLX · Dec 9, 2008

i LOVE those boxy malibus with big cowls, and that thing is particularly clean... that's a great gift you're giving your buddy, i'm sure he'll be excited to put those on there, sick

RycheGT · Dec 9, 2008

Great present. Theres a late 70's bu running around local thats fixed up similar to that one but its a light blue. They great when someone gets to toying with one.

87foxstang · Dec 9, 2008

Sick work on those valve covers man

That car is sweet

bynummustang · Dec 9, 2008

That is amazing man, I will try to do something like that for my buddy whose in the Guard.

1991notchbackLX · Dec 9, 2008

did you ever consider selling that as a service to people who'd ship you their valve covers? as long as you're not engraving anything trademarked or copywritten i think you'd be within the law and maybe make some coin in the process... just a thought though

bynummustang · Dec 10, 2008

1991notchbackLX said:
did you ever consider selling that as a service to people who'd ship you their valve covers? as long as you're not engraving anything trademarked or copywritten i think you'd be within the law and maybe make some coin in the process... just a thought though

I think that is a great idea, I'd be happy to commission you to do the work.

90lxcoupe · Dec 10, 2008

i would have no problem doing a set for anyone, the only thing is that it would have to go through the machine shop i work for as far as payment goes. I am not looking to make any money off of my employer and im just glad that he is cool enough to let me do stuff like this on my own time.

He told me a job like this would be roughly $200 per valve cover, but there is also alot of engraving going on with these covers, so the price would depend on the cycle time of the machine and the complexity of the design... If anyone wants a set PM me and hopefully we can work something out

NIKwoaC · Dec 10, 2008

How did they machine? Are they steel or aluminum? Are you going to coat them afterwords?

Sorry for all the questions, I used to be a part time machinist, and I loved doing jobs like that. My car has or had all sorts of custom machined stuff I made at work, haha.

90lxcoupe · Dec 10, 2008

NikwoaC said:
How did they machine? Are they steel or aluminum? Are you going to coat them afterwords?

Sorry for all the questions, I used to be a part time machinist, and I loved doing jobs like that. My car has or had all sorts of custom machined stuff I made at work, haha.

they are aluminum, they machined pretty well, the cut is about .020 deep so there isnt a whole lot of stock removal. i was thinking about having them painted blue to go with the USAF theme, but im gonna let my friend deciede on that when he gets home... plus the pattern on the cover looks sick from the way the machine cut them, the finish is excellent on them, the way you see it in the pictures is the exact way they came off of the machine. No polishing or sanding or even deburring

bynummustang · Dec 11, 2008

I'll most likely get you do do a set, but I have to wait on other things. How much/where did you get the valve covers from.

BDASPNY · Dec 11, 2008

wow those turned out great, good job!

bentley429 · Dec 11, 2008

Very neat, sure he will be happy with his present.

90lxcoupe · Dec 11, 2008

bynummustang said:
I'll most likely get you do do a set, but I have to wait on other things. How much/where did you get the valve covers from.

they were 80 bucks from summit, but summit has SBF ones for like 60 that are plain wiht no holes

bynummustang · Dec 11, 2008

90lxcoupe said:
they were 80 bucks from summit, but summit has SBF ones for like 60 that are plain wiht no holes

My buddy has a 12.9:1 SBC around 500HP

90lxcoupe · Jan 12, 2009

i found some better pics that i forgot to upload before. My friend was supposed to be coming back today, but theyre holding him until the 26th of this month the last i heard

the quality on these pics is much better, you can really see the detail and the pattern the engraving tool made.

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