Supercharger is in
 

Well the good news is that everything is going nicely at CAR. The engine, tranny and supercharger are in, and it should be fired up this coming week. Excuse the mess in the engine. I do have some bad news. I cannot use my rare zz430 valve covers due to the venting on the driver side is right under the blow off valve on the supercharger. Ill put it too you guys. What valve covers would look good on the car? And yes, I don't want to alter these covers.

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you have a vent on both sides, or is that an oil fill cap on the other side? If it's not a breather switch the breather and oil cap, or swap covers side to side if necessary. If not you'll need other covers.

Jody

Hey Jody. Yeah we went though the breather/oil cap issue, and we figured out that we needed new valve covers. They could have machined these to work, but I didn't want to ruin the covers. So now I'm looking for new ones. I saw some carbon ones, what do you think?

Mike, those look just like the bowtie covers that I have. You could get a set of the tall versions, which are just what you have. The tall ones don't come with the holes for venting, so you can put the breathers/oil fill wherever you want on them. That, and you can paint/powdercoat them black or the same color as your car to make them look nice.

I was thinking of something like that. I also like the look of the carbon ones, but would not know if they would not leak. I would like to find someone who makes the custom ones.

well I like the cf ones, I have a set myself!

http://www.carbonfibervalvecovers.co...bcb2_photo.jpg

Where can you get those? Also can they do the vent and oil holes for you when you order them? Will they fit the zz4 motor?

Looking good man!

Alex

they can do the vents or oil fills in any config you want. He's a site sponsor.

http://www.carbonfibervalvecovers.com/carbonvc.htm

I should have seen that. Ill check them out on Monday. They don't leak do they? Have you had any issues with them at all?

Why would you think they would leak? Gas tanks on bikes are sometimes made with carbon and don't leak.

Yes Jody has had issues with them collecting dust...:willy:

:lol:

very sexy

Mike it looks good! Go with the CF, I think they would look great on your car. I'm thinking of getting some myself as they offer them for the LT1 with the needed alt. clearance...not many do for some reason.

Also, we need vid of that thing running!!

Hey Anthony. I think the carbon's are going to be the way to go, just have to run it by the crew first. I should hope to have video at weeks end. I know they are driving it first without the supercharger hooked up, then after so many miles they are going to hook it up. It should be done at weekend end. Ill be armed with a video camera. :unibrow:

Mike -

Your car looks great. What size ProCharger is that ? Bet you can't wait to fire that up and push some boost. The CF covers would look really nice in your engine compartment. Post some video clips when you get it up and running.

Mike Congrats! Looks good, and cant wait for some video.

Carbon ones are nice, but only if you can tie them into the car with some hints of carbon other places as well. You definetly need them to be a finish other than polish/chrome to help give your engine bay more offset (the black ones look good there now.

What about those other CHEVROLET ones? with the raised milled off letters like the ZZ572 covers? You could powder them any color you want. If you do that then powder paint the gloss black parts of the new blower (tubing parts) in a matching color. You need to keep a sense of continuity with the colors and textures.

You could also find a set of plain covers, poweder them then have them laser engraved or milled to say something specific to your enigne.

Did any of that make sense? lol

Steve, I did take that all into consideration and even though he doesn't have any other CF on the car, I felt he has enough black going onto help it work....but I do see your point, and that's one reason I haven't ordered mine.

Mike, since we're spending your money. :) How about going with an elbow and single blade TB like mine (to get rid of the black hat) and a CF intake tube like on Arts Corvette....that should tie it all in well! :)

You only need to add a couple accents. Just enough so they seem like part of the package and not a last minute addition.

Well perhaps just replacing his intake tube with a cf one would do the trick?

Hey Guys thanks for the replys. What I might do is have the carbon fiber painted, if that's possible. Ill have to check my options on that. Steve, I agree on the colors may not matching the theme of the rest of the engine bay. I did think about the "Chevrolet" ones, but a lot of people around here have that. They do look good though.

I don't think I have seen either one, do you have pictures of it?

here's a pic of Art's car....look at my avatar for the elbow and TB.

Art's car and your car is FI right?

yeah, sorry I forgot you are using a carb....but you an still get an idea of what the cf intake would look like.

Yeah, it looks great. Ill be using FI after the fall.

Ok I know you love your ZZ430 so how about this?
Use the CF valve covers and paint them body color (blue), but first have a "ZZ430 or ZZ430SC" sticker made, paint the covers, and then peel the stickers to reveal that they are true cf. You could even have the lettering outlined in your silver stripe color. This could be the best of both worlds and pretty creatave at that!

That would look slick. I need to photoshop what that might look like. :thumbsup:

mazspeed:
I just looked at your site and it is very nice. Is the pulley system in the pic the one that you will be using with the procharger, if so which one is that? I am researching this now so any info would be great. Thanks.

Thank you James. The pulley system is made by March. http://www.marchperf.com/

Where did you get your pulley that is on your crank? Did you get it from Frank? Does it have the two ribbed belt provisions? Sorry for all the question just seems like there is not much info around.

Hard to tell by the pics
 

but would it be easier to re-route your intake tube or move the blow off valve to the other side? If you like the covers, keep them and modify the tube

PLEASE..... MORE PICS OF THE PULLEY SYSTEM... IS THE POWER STEERING...

this was why I did not want to go Procharger was due to the accessory system.....:thumbsup:

Blessings,

This is our accessory drive. It is the first one we delivered, and Mikes shop had to spend a couple hours making some adjustments, milling a piece and some other tweaks. Apparently the production pieces were slightly different then the mock up pieces. So we have another kit now we are doing for MDProove, and are making sure the issue is solved before we ship this or any other kits.

The system looks fantastic. It uses a remote reservoir pump. Combined with custom adapters, brackets and pulleys we make. The right (passenger) side of the kit is a March mid mount set up. The left (drivers) side of the kit is all our making.

There is some minor frame crossmember notching required to fit a stock frame. Basically a C relief in the forward crossmember. And apparently on a Fatman Chassis, a sway bar spacer may be required to clear the large Blower drive. Although both these issues are present doing any blower drive.

The entire kit including complete serpentine set up with polished A/C compressor, polished alternator, polished remote PS pump, remote reservoir, P1SC ProCharger, Surge valve, etc, is just under $6,000

I will have more pics later in the week of MDProove's system, using a Holley Stealth Ram, it is going to be HOTTT!!!

If you could either PM me some pics and $ 6,000 seems alot, but it looks so perfect.... PM me when you have more info and I think I would be ready around the end of August. Also, can you sell me the procharge system? Doing a 434 sb, and looking for 10-12lbs boost non-intercooled for now... now I am excited.....:hail:

Blessings,

Dude, your going to love this, that $6000 includes the ProCharger! Sounds like a deal now doesn't it! however you will be looking at a upgrade to a D1SC for your monster 434. About $6500 with a D1SC

:wow: :wow: :wow: I can't erase the grin on my face now.... I think I better call my heart doctor....:willy: I feel like I just won the Lottery..... The deal is sealed.... I will keep in touch.... :woot:

Blessings,

Frank will post the pics in this thread... I guess

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=6421

I guess Frank took over my questions and answer session. :D