drisin80

hi--decided to do the whole replace plugs, wires , coils, caps, rotors,rebuild distributor, adjust valves thing before bringing out this spring, and have the cat and secondary muffler off, as well as the heat shielding and tin. I haven't removed the valve covers yet, and there appears to be a very small amount of oil around the lowers, but nothing around the uppers. i do notice what appears to be a lot of the paint (?) coming off of the lowers. after reading around on this forum, i assume i have the magnesium covers, and there could be some damage to them. i see where some people have media blasted, and powder coated these, others replaced with aftermarket covers. what is the best thinking on this---- and where is the best place to get them. not afraid of spending the money. i see where someone posted that the plug wire clips do not go back on the hargett precision ones. do the ones from imagine auto have holes for them. also what about the rennspeed ones i see on ebay---too good to be true??? anyones thoughts or opiniions appreciated. thanks---tom

Marc Shaw

I have the IA lower covers - not a leak since being installed 2 years ago.

Marc

Oracle

Marc,
What's the IA covers? Is that a special part from Porsche or aftermarket.
My car is weeping from the lowers and I'm pretty sure they're stock

thanks

Marc Shaw

IA = Imagine Auto

Marc
p..s aren't they pretty?

Oracle

me likey!! You just found a way to make me spend more money

yellowducman

Imagine and Hargett are the same covers unless Imagine has started producing his own in the last couple of months. I went through this same thing while doing my valve adjust in Feb. If you have a 1990, you have magnesium valve covers and they corrode on the outside and in. I decided to replace all four of mine because of this. I wanted the Hargett ones but they were two pricey for me for a set of four and I ended up getting a set of later model aluminum ones from LA Dismantlers. Since, I have seen some that have been power coated but I'm not sure if it is the outside and inside or outside only. My concern was not the flaking on the outside but the inside. If I had the cash, I would get the Hargett ones and not worry about the wire clips. After so many years, most of these cars have broken clips anyway and it doesn't seem to cause a problem.

Ritchie.

Marc Shaw

Ritchie,

This was discussed recently and it was determined that IA and Hargett are not the same (uhh...I think you said that yourself ).

Marc

wsybert

Here are the Hargett's. The only issue with IA and Hargett is there are no means to fasten your wire clips to the cover.
I had to modified mine to get the clips on. Otherwise I hear they are both great at not leaking, and look very nice!

dutchcrunch

no disrespect intended. the clips are inportant. you need to supports the wire . as far as vlave covers. the new factory ones are beefier and nice compared to the old mag style witch i had. about three times the weight too.

the after market ones are alright, the problem that i have is that the end wire hole is incomplete to hold the sparkplug boot secure and also a little to big on the other holes to from what a buy of these valve covers told me. the wires need to fit snog in the valve cover not only to hold the plug wire securely to plug but to ALSO TO CREATE AN AIR TIGHT SEAL SO ALL THE COOLING AIR PASSES THRU TOP OF ENGINE AND THRU THE BOTTOM , and not leak out of engine.

again not trying to start nothing but my lawn mower here. the lowers are 297 each, just ordered them.

yellowducman

I did post that in a earlier post that IA had informed me that there machine was down, but after posting that I contacted Hargett, they informed me that they had made the covers for IA until recently. I was under the impression that IA hadn't made any of there own at that time and was trying to gear up to produce them themselves. I could be wrong on that assumption though.