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Who makes a chrome timming cover for a 428 FE ?
Hello, I'm wanting to buy a chrome timming cover for my 428 FE. Anyone know who makes them ?
Thanks, Kev OR.....a polished alum. |
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Great, thanks !
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Chrome??
George sells polished aluminum timing covers. They start at $250. You can chrome any FE timing cover BUT if you have gone through that much trouble (getting the surface straight enough to shine) just polish it. It's a richer better looking finish.
It takes about 10 hours to get a typical timing cover straight enough to chrome or polish. That represents about $200 of the $250 cost. That's why the cost is so high. That said I have a nicely polished spare you can have for $180. It was in an engine that broke a cam and had the cam walk out and the gear scored the inside surface. It was professionally repaired and impossible to see the heliarc weld from the outside. Or you can polish your own. Start with 120 grit sandpaper and work your way down (up) to 2000 and then hit it with a buffer**) :CRY: Regards, Michael Strunk |
You can get a good buffer/grinder combo for about $100 from Harbor Freight. Go lock yourself in the garage for about 2 hours and you will end up with your very own polished cover. The only problem is that you end up wanting all of your aluminum parts polished, and starting with a rough casting like the intake, heads, waterpump, if will take many hours.........See my gallery.
The cover starts out as a smooth casting so it's not alot of work to get it to shine. Good Luck! Jon |
Hey... The Edelbrock polished aluminum water pump was ONLY $386. The Dove Surge tank was ONLY $750. The polished 8V intake was ONLY $1400 (the lowrise was a deal at $800)....
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ceramic coating is a nice way to go.Much less expensive and no maintenance afterwards. chuck
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I'm still not sure why you think polished aluminum is addictive. The girling polished brake calipers are only $600. ea. the polished rear hubs were only $200 ea (plus the hub) The rear diff. cover was only $150 and heck, I polished the rear IRS tie link myself in 4 hours.
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The billet shift knob was only $40 and the polished trim ring wasn't more than $50...
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$386 for the polisher Edelbrock pump.........That makes me feel better. I bought mine for $139 back before they had the polish option. I figure that with a savings of $247 I made about $10 an hour while polishing mine......That thing has lots of nooks and crannies.
Jon D. Miller A guy with more time than cash........... P.S. I got my 6 year old to help shine the hub carriers, she works cheap :). |
I think I'll either polish it myself or have it ceramic coated. Save some money that way.
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There was just a discussion on another forum about polishing aluminum.
It seems that it has been the experience of some that polishing a component reduces its ability to radiate heat. They were talking intake manifolds, and it was seeming like engines with polished intakes were running a lot hotter than before the polishing, without any other changes. Polishing seemingly removes alot of surface area from a part. Just thinking here, but would a polished aluminum water pump be a good idea? The very part where you want heat to radiate away from. A polished timing cover might not matter so much. Anyone have any practical experience, experimental results, polished vs unpolished? |
I had my old used alluminum timing cover ceramic coated , pointer seperate .new screws. They poilish afterwards as part of the process.
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From a theoretical point of view the rough cast surface would radiate heat much more efficiently than a smooth polished surface due to the much greater surface area of the rough casting-just like Sizzler said. Think cooling fins on an air cooled motor.
BUT aluminum dissapates heat better than cast iron and the Edelbrock pump also moves more water than the stock cast iron unit. Then there is the fully ducted/shrouded aluminum radiator, and the oil cooler, painted vs coated vs bare metal, aluminum heads and intake vs cast iron.........Let the test runs begin, but not in my garage, I'm not smart enough for more than one or two variables :). -Jon |
if my polished parts ever get that hot I better drive it into a lake...
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it almost looks polished, how many trips to the brass plating bath did that take?
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Don't know about the chroming, it's not my auction, but it sure looks pretty.
I found it on eBay while looking for something else and remembered funfer2 was looking for one :) |
Thanks jschiller, that's what I'm looking for.
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FUNFER2
If you are going to bid on it I would email the seller first and make sure the plating process did not mess up the size of the hole for the oil seal so a normal seal still fits. I have had precision parts chromed that changed critical dimensions. You want a good seal on that crankshaft!!!! |
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