<VV> Stock is - Painted Valve Covers?

[Geoffrey A. Johnson]

They were terne plated....lead/zinc....

--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:59 AM -0400 Tom Suter <tsuter@eisc.org> 
wrote:

> Rocker covers were unpainted but plated -- cadmium, I believe.  Any paint,
> black or otherwise, impedes heat radiation from the metal rocker cover
> surface.  "Black body" radiation is negligible in the temperature range
> the covers experience.
>
> Tom Suter
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