Polished Valve covers for the GT?

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briankmagby

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Anyone know if their are any polished after-market valve covers for the new Mustang GT? The Mustang needs more dress-up items for under the hood, like “Polished” or “Powered by Ford” valve covers! With the old 5.0's, you could really dress up the engine, but the new GT looks pretty boring under the hood. Anyone have any info if there is anything out there or on the way?

Thanks.
 
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briankmagby said:
Anyone know if their are any polished after-market valve covers for the new Mustang GT? The Mustang needs more dress-up items for under the hood, like “Polished” or “Powered by Ford” valve covers! With the old 5.0's, you could really dress up the engine, but the new GT looks pretty boring under the hood. Anyone have any info if there is anything out there or on the way?

Thanks.
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Polish your own. That's what I did.


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briankmagby said:
Anyone know if their are any polished after-market valve covers for the new Mustang GT? The Mustang needs more dress-up items for under the hood, like “Polished” or “Powered by Ford” valve covers! With the old 5.0's, you could really dress up the engine, but the new GT looks pretty boring under the hood. Anyone have any info if there is anything out there or on the way?

Thanks.
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ford racing has advertised them, but i am not sure if they are available yet. they were expensive too.
 
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thump_rrr, yours look nice, how did you do it? Did you have to remove the valve covers to polish them, or did you just do it with them on the car? Also what did you use to do it; I have never polished any aluminum. Thanks.

Bigcat, thanks for the info, I will keep a look out for them.
 
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The FRPP catalog says they are available. They're expensive, but not a whole lot more than what BBK was charging for the SN-95 cam covers. I think the regular ones were about $250 and the chrome-look ones were like $350 a pair. They're on my list.
 
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heres the part #s for the ford racing valve covers:

m-6582-c543v powdercoated for chrome appearance
m-6582-3vb blue
m-6582-3vblk black wrinkle
m-6582-3vs silver
 
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I already received a set of FRPP silver cam covers and sent them back because the quality of the finish was disappointing at best. FYI, the silver ones look like 'primer wrinkle'. I was anticipating a smooth metallic silver similar to the factory 4V cam covers. There was no description available anywhere other than 'silver'. I just paid more for a bare set from Ford and I'm currently in the process of smoothing out all of the casting marks prior to painting/coating. I'm looking for a paint code for the Ford Cobra silver color if anyone happens to know it.
 
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RandyB said:
I'm talking about the paint code for the 4V valve cover paint just to clarify. How about '03 or '04? :)
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i dont think you will find a specific code for it. ford doesnt list a code for stuff like that. interior and exterior paint codes is all you will find. i guess you would have to get one from somewhere and have a paint supplier use their computer color analyzer to come up with a formula for it. any good paint supplier shoulf be able to do this for you, and shouldnt cost any more than just the regular paint.
 
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For what it's worth If your going to spend all that money $250-$399 for replacements and your going to spend the time and effort to remove the original ones you might as well find a someone to take them to and either get them powder coated or ceramic coated.I just took mine off, a really big pain in the A**.I am having them ceramic coated with a chrome finish for about $95.00 Much cheaper that replacements.Think they will be more durable and the finish will last longer.
 
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I think you're right Zoomer. I actually used a little Flitz polish on one area of mine and the originals would probably just polish up pretty good. But, powedercoating or ceramic coating should look good. The problem is getting them off. There's a lot of spaghetti connected in and around the cam covers and the back nuts look like they'll be fun to get loose.

Some guy on the Corral Forums said it took him just 20 min. to get them off. I don't think so.
 
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NorthwestGT said:
I think you're right Zoomer. I actually used a little Flitz polish on one area of mine and the originals would probably just polish up pretty good. But, powedercoating or ceramic coating should look good. The problem is getting them off. There's a lot of spaghetti connected in and around the cam covers and the back nuts look like they'll be fun to get loose.

Some guy on the Corral Forums said it took him just 20 min. to get them off. I don't think so.
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It takes 20-30 min each to get them off.
It looks intimidating but it's really quite simple.
I removed the first one, wet sanded it down with 320, 600, 1000, and and, 2000 then hand polished it with aluminum mag wheel cleaner (eagle one) and reinstalled it in about 3 hours one morning before going off to work. Next time I'll try using the Mothers Power Ball.

LH Removal

Remove the air cleaner assembly and outlet pipe.

Remove the LH ignition coils.

Remove the oil level indicator and tube.

Disconnect the evaporative emissions (EVAP) tube from the intake manifold.

Remove the positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) tube.

Disconnect the LH variable camshaft timing (VCT) solenoid electrical connector and detach the 2 wiring harness pin-type retainers.

Detach the 2 wiring harness retainers from the valve cover stud bolts.

Loosen the 15 fasteners and remove the LH valve cover and gasket.


RH Removal

Remove the RH ignition coils.

Detach the wiring harness retainer from the engine front cover stud bolt.

Disconnect the RH variable camshaft timing (VCT) solenoid electrical connector.

Disconnect the positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) tube from the RH valve cover.

Detach the 4 wiring harness retainers from the valve cover stud bolts.

Loosen the 14 fasteners and remove the RH valve cover and gasket.

No offense to anyone but the difficulty level is only one notch above replacing your intake.
 
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