Here's what they look like on the car: they are not copper like in the web site picture, but shiny silver metal on the manifold side and and paper gasket material on the valve cover side--don't spill oil on them or the paper side falls apart.
Nickel'd and dime'd to death!! It costs a bit of scratch to do it right, but it's still only 1/2 as much as a set of TTI headers.....maybe it's just jealousy because I can't afford them!
P.S. You can get by with regular valve covers, just bend the plug wire support up a bit.
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Hey,I love the TTI schtuff.But no munny. I have the system (minus headers) on the New Yorker and everybody just love the sound What I have saved so far on the BoaB,I am now going to spend on the engine. I was going to bend up the valve cover until I climbed up into my garage loft and discovered that I already had HP valvers sitting there for 6 years--and forgot about them! <span class='smallblacktext'>[ Edited Tue Aug 25 2009, 05:42PM ]</span>
I have the TTI system on mine car too - it sounds like that Charger in 'Bullet' !!!!
I kept the HP manifolds more for the authentic look than anything else, (besides the crazy money TTI wants for their headers), but I guess that look is gone now with the addition of a Performer RPM intake manifold.
Both my HP valve covers had been replaced years ago with some cheap after market chrome ones that looked like crap (old, rusty and bent), so I'm using ones off a 383 2bbl.
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Well I dug out my rocker covers, question is, will these work with HP??
I also found a spark plug heat shield that was used with my LP logs, will this work with HP or does it need to be deeper.
Another associated question, once my heads are installed and torqued down, will I screw anything up if I install a spark plug heat shield later. I'm not feeling comfortable removing and replacing a torqued pair of head bolts.
Looking thru my parts stash I don't see a valley pan, is this part of the gasket set?
Those valve covers will work fine. The spark plug heat shields are the same for Lo-po and HP manifolds, but you need one for each side, and you have to put them on before you install the manifolds.
I have removed the two head bolts (they are some of the real short ones at the lower edge of the head) put the shields on and re-torqued the bolts on several engines with no problems. It's nice that Mopar big blocks have five bolts per cylinder - I wouldn't loosen the bolts on four bolt heads.
You have to buy the valley pan separatly: Summit, Jegs, or Mancini all sell the ones with the heat crossover blocked off. <span class='smallblacktext'>[ Edited Wed Aug 26 2009, 12:53AM ]</span>
