Vortec or Edelbrocks valve covers?

[TYTILIDIE]

Which one do you guys like best? I like the Vortec covers because they are compact, clean looking and GM, I like the Edelbrocks because they look tough but cant stand the script on them.

 

[supersports10]

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vortec!!!!!!!!!!!

i hate chrome, and i refuse to put valve covers to a company on a truck, that they dont even make heads for.......come on edelbrock.......no 4.3l aluminum heads??? ......ooooooohhh but we can make a brand new set of "409" heads for the small # of them out there.

how many millions of 4.3l engines are running around out there??????....reducilous!!!!! .....rant off.

 

[TYTILIDIE]

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Actually, these are aluminum, polished.

 

[supersports10]

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Actually, these are aluminum, polished.

better...but same difference, judjung by the color of your wheels, you come from the same school of thought as me......monochromatic!! ....black is good!!!!:myclone:

 

[Daveman2]

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edelbrocks look way more polished IMO, but then again you could paint/detail your vortec's to the same level

 

[jasonpickett]

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vortec!!!!!!!!!!!

i hate chrome, and i refuse to put valve covers to a company on a truck, that they dont even make heads for.......come on edelbrock.......no 4.3l aluminum heads??? ......ooooooohhh but we can make a brand new set of "409" heads for the small # of them out there.

how many millions of 4.3l engines are running around out there??????....reducilous!!!!! .....rant off.

Actually edelbrock did make heads for the 4.3 at one time but discontinued them for some reason. A buddy of mine has a set with the intake manifold I have been trying to get from him for sometime now.

 

[Don W.]

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FWIW I'm gonna use the Vortec's. Mostly a $$ with me. I like the fully dressed engines people have done. Polished alum against black looks good IMO. I would prefer plain as opposed to named covers though.

 

[fivetodrive]

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Mike I dont think the vortec ones will fit with your roller rockers. Unless you add spacers.... But then I bet they will leak...

 

[TYTILIDIE]

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Got some spacers yesterday. The Vortecs fit nicely with them. I like the Vortecs better myself. I guess that is what I will go with. I am on a mission today to find a way to prevent the spacers from leaking. I haven't ruled out epoxy but would certainly rather not.

 

[Ry368]

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Got some spacers yesterday. The Vortecs fit nicely with them. I like the Vortecs better myself. I guess that is what I will go with. I am on a mission today to find a way to prevent the spacers from leaking. I haven't ruled out epoxy but would certainly rather not.

Thank god......those edelbrocks are ucking fugly!:lol:

 

[gt67sy]

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I've run spacers on my truck with the stock valve covers and they have never leaked and I just have them installed the way there supposed to be. My spaces do have a black rubber ring running through the spacers on both sides

 

[SY2932]

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I've run spacers on my truck with the stock valve covers and they have never leaked and I just have them installed the way there supposed to be. My spaces do have a black rubber ring running through the spacers on both sides

Is it a continuous ring or does it have a seam? I was just going to machine a groove in the spacer, top and bottom, for sealing cord and call it a day. I like the Vortecs too, the Edelbrocks look to "busy" for my taste...

 

[gt67sy]

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It's on continuious one. I've had it apart a couple times and no leaking

 

[vortecfiero]

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vortec :tup: