[FC] Chevy orange valve covers

[Paul Steinberg]

I have a NOS vibration damper that was painted Chevrolet orange.  When I 
first pulled it from the shelf at the dealership that I was cleaning out of 
old part, I thought it might have been mislabeled or a Chevy part put into a 
box with the Corvair number.  After looking at it for a minute, I realized 
that it was definitely Corvair.  Might have been painted the Chevy orange by 
the manufacturing vendor that didn't know it was supposed to be black.
Paul in CT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tkalp at cox.net>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [FC] Chevy orange valve covers


> During my search for more information I found this post on the Corvair 
> Forum:
> "Re: Does anyone have pictures of the Corvair engine undressed
> Posted by: bill darcy ()
> Date: March 06, 2012 05:54PM
>
> I've never seen an entire Corvair engine orange only HB and valve 
> covers.Was discussing this very thing with Pat Hall recently as he has at 
> least 4 engines that he's pulled out that had orange paint as 
> mentioned.From what we could determine it appears to be 64 engines but 
> couldn't find any pattern and we were thinking that perhaps it was just a 
> matter of some getting painted with small block stuff and just used that 
> way.Seems reasonable that Chevy would paint tin parts in batches and maybe 
> someone just didn't notice that some were Vair parts."
>
> Both the engines I found were '64s . . .  So people only painted their 
> valve covers orange on their '64s?  Despite my high respect for lclc I 
> still consider the question open for further investigation. Thanks for all 
> the responses.
>
> T. Kalp
> Wichita, KS
>
>
> ---- Dale Dewald <dkdewald at pasty.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Several years ago I had a brief Q/A with lclc about engine sheet
>> metal.  The official word: Valve covers and oil pans of all Corvair 
>> engines
>> were stamped from terne (a lead-tin alloy) plated steel sheet and left 
>> the
>> factory without additional paint.  Orange, black or any other color valve
>> covers are non-stock.
>>
>> Dale Dewald
>> Hancock, MI
>>
>
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