I am having a 350 rebuilt and installed. My question , is a sbc dress up kit worth it or does it make the engine look tacky? It all ready has Mickey Thompson valve covers, aluminum intake, a dual snorkel chrome air filter housing, flowtech long tube headers. The engine bay has been stripped of all emissions and non essential things. Would anything else be acceptable? BTW, it is being painted chevy orange.
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What type of dress up kit? Are you talking about a cheap Mr Gasket chrome one? Then ya in my opinion it would look tacky. I pieced together my own "dress up kit" for my 355. I like gold iridite and black. So I bought a gold iridite pan, gold iridite timing cover and some black crinkle finish valve covers. I think it turned out good. I also used gold iridite fasteners where I could.
I bought the same valve covers that Chris has and I took an old chrome air cleaner lid, blasted it, painted it semi gloss black and added a "400 Turbo-fire" decal to it. I didnt want anything too tacky and over done.
Very true. I would rather my engine bay look clean than cool or full of "race" parts. Its also kind of a phase for me, when I very first got the car I wanted a chrome dress up kit. Now after knowing how hard it is to clean and keep looking good id rather have the black crinkle. Chrome will get alot more looks at shows tho, atleast around herekewpie79 said:
I don't think a little bit of chrome is a bad thing, like chrome air cleaners and valve covers look good, it's when everything starts getting chromed that it looks tacky. A fully chromed engine with all the billet accessories like you see at every car show is way too much IMO.
I was thinking of getting a Dress up kit for my 305 as the valve covers on it are rusted and too much effort is going to be needed to bring them back to looking decent. I saw this dress up kit at Summit, anyone ever buy one of these? I want something that looks good and clean and wont look overdone. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/PRO-141-758/
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Those are the same valve covers except mine are the tall version I have and I love them. Thats a good price for the entire kit.Lorenzo said:
i've always been a basic black person. chrome just screams "LOOK AT ME!" and since the hood is closed the vast majority of the time i dont see a reason to have chromed out stuff on the engine. my car is also a daily driver so...yeah chrome is pretty pointless for me. i'd rather buy more go fast goodies than look good stuff.
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