Blueprints of S.B. heads or valve covers?

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Going to make my own valve covers. (or try to). Are there prints/drawings of the small block LA valve cover gasket shape/size and bolt pattern someplace? I'm sure I can figure it out, but if this info already exists....

TIA!
 
69_340_GTS said:
Going to make my own valve covers. (or try to). Are there prints/drawings of the small block LA valve cover gasket shape/size and bolt pattern someplace? I'm sure I can figure it out, but if this info already exists....

TIA!
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Me personally I would think about starting with cutting up a set of stock ones and building from there.
 
69_340_GTS said:
Going to make my own valve covers. (or try to). Are there prints/drawings of the small block LA valve cover gasket shape/size and bolt pattern someplace? I'm sure I can figure it out, but if this info already exists....

TIA!
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If you have a head just make a template. Just a thought.
 
Need hard dimensions to make a CAD model (3D printing either a pattern for casting, or possibly directly 3D printing the covers in a carbon/composite). I can measure, but like I said if it's already been done it would be easier.
 
diymirage said:
Can you scan or trace a valve cover gasket?
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Thanks for the suggestions, but...
I do not have that kind of scanner (called a blue-light scanner or white-light scanner). Hardly anyone does. Well, except the Chinese do have plenty of them... that's how they copy our stuff! I cannot make a CAD model without a 3D scanned model, or the data from a blueprint. I can manually measure an existing valve cover, it just isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. Fortunately I work in a machine shop that employs some very good layout inspectors that are willing to help.
 
69_340_GTS said:
Thanks for the suggestions, but...
I do not have that kind of scanner (called a blue-light scanner or white-light scanner). Hardly anyone does. Well, except the Chinese do have plenty of them... that's how they copy our stuff! I cannot make a CAD model without a 3D scanned model, or the data from a blueprint. I can manually measure an existing valve cover, it just isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. Fortunately I work in a machine shop that employs some very good layout inspectors that are willing to help.
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Yep, not as easy as it looks.
 
Not sure if this will help, but in CT there is a club that has 3d printers/scanners/lazer cutters ect. It cost about $50/mo to join and you can use the equipment. Maybe there is something like that around your neck of the woods that could scan a cover.
 
you could scan 1/2 of a valve cover gasket and mirror image duplicate it in a flatbed. I Drafting/CAD was my minor in college.
 
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