[V8Vairs] Engine Covers

[Ryan Counterman]

Belive me, I love the thrill of taking the car to a local show or cruise 
night and people see the ole radiator in the front, and wonder where to 
motor is, only to find it wedged in the back seat.  But if you noticed at 
the convention, my car has a rather loud (flowmaster 40s with 3" pipe) 
exhaust.  Cruising 70 or 90 for that matter, if I am going more than about 
30 minutes I definatly need ear plugs or my ears ring for days...Its 
sounding like the fiberglass is out, I may be leaning towards making the 
cover out of like 3/4" MDF or plywood and then screwing aluminum or some 
other thin metal to the engine side, but having some sort of access on the 
top, so everyone can drool over my chromed out waterpumper at car shows.  I 
would also like to make the entire cover fairly easy to remove, for larger 
shows such as conventions and such...Its no fun if you cant "show em the 
goods"

Ryan Counterman


>From: "AKidd" <akidd@zeagna.com>
>Reply-To: v8vairs@corvair.org
>To: <v8vairs@corvair.org>
>Subject: RE: [V8Vairs] Engine Covers
>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:18:45 -0400
>
>I covered mine the old fashioned way.  With a HOOD!  Seriously I think 
>going
>to all the work to cover it takes away the thrill factor of having the
>engine in the back seat.  When I take my front engine V8 to a cruise it 
>gets
>the occasional "way to go" from someone who knows how much work went into
>it.  However that's nothing like the jaw dropping crowd gathering that you
>get when you show up with that snarly beast inches from your kidneys.
>Crowns have way more crowd appeal but I can drive my front engine vair
>anywhere without going deaf or loosing 100lbs of sweat.
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