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02-07-2007, 12:21 AM

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cut cam cover

so i have a spare cam cover and i want the gears to be exposed can someone give me a visual of exactly where i need to cut it at.

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02-07-2007, 12:28 AM

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02-07-2007, 12:47 AM

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Yeah that's that's awesome. Flying miata photo?

02-07-2007, 12:52 AM

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Personally, I haven't seen a valve cover cut by FM that has looked decent IMO. Have you thought about a different valve cover? A buddy of mine swapped his at the gap for one off a.. I want to say Protege?.. that didn't have a cam cover. Had to get a coil pack bracket though, since that valve cover wasn't designed to mount our coil pack. It looked great though!

02-07-2007, 12:59 AM

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Found it:

02-07-2007, 01:07 AM

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Exposed cam covers only look good if you have nice adjustable cam sprockets.

02-07-2007, 01:14 AM

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02-07-2007, 01:29 AM

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any pics from underneath

02-07-2007, 02:40 AM

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id be worried about a wire or hose getting caught and skipping the timing gear, causing a water leak leading to overheating, or something else lol

02-07-2007, 03:08 AM

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I cut mine, but I didnt do it straight. I will try to post a picture when the sun comes out.

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02-07-2007, 03:10 AM

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Quote:

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so i have a spare cam cover and i want the gears to be exposed can someone give me a visual of exactly where i need to cut it at.

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...580_6_full.jpg

When you turn the valve cover over you can see where the gasket is. just cut off what you want without going over that line.

02-07-2007, 08:07 AM

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Here's how I cut mine. I decided to remove the entire flange that covers/protects the belt:

02-07-2007, 08:47 AM

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I spend too much time leaning on the motor to leave anything like that moving and exposed. Nice way to wipe out a timing light, also.

02-07-2007, 09:08 AM

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For anybody running with the 1.8, I found that if you take the cam cover from an Escort GT with the 1.8 (early 90's)... they have one where the gears would be exposed.

Unfortunately, it's got a big huge ford logo on it.... <G>

I thought about using it, but without having the adjustable cam gears, it's not worth it to me. I would rather keep them covered, and protected....

Dave,