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[Rob®]

1.8l Protege valve cover as black roadster was saying for a 1.8l Miata.

[jeepinbanditrider]

If it's the guy I'm thinking (I need to call him about my intercooler pipes still too), I want to say it was from a 1.6l Capri. Almost positive actually. His name is Josh...has the flat black vinyl wrapped NA.

And not to highjack the thread, but I have a spare 1.6l valve cover, and will be getting another in a few weeks. Just FYI, not trying to sell it here.

EDIT: Found a pic of the one I'm talking about. And I saved it on my phone as "capricover" so I would imagine I listened to him correctly when I took that picture. Hope he doesn't mind that I posted a pic of his motor here.

Yup that's his car. Capri??

[Rob®]

Yup, Mercury Capri. You'd be looking for the 3rd gen (91-94). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Capri

Semi-interesting side note: When I worked at a shop in NJ, back when I was still a Z32 guy, a guy came into the shop with a modded turbo Capri. He let me drive it like it was my own car, and it was rather quick. At the time I didn't have any turbo Miata experience, so I didn't realize it's practically the same motor.

Other side question: you ever put in your intercooler? I'd still like to see how it was recommended to move the AC stuff, if you don't mind.

[driftdevil]

Either that or keep an eye out on club roadster for a GTX valve cover as that is what they are from as well. Just make sure it's the 1.6 or 1.8 as both motors were in that car.

[ray_sir_6]

Thanks Titus.

From a business stand point, we went with the two most popular colors. Most people are fine with an uncut valve cover. There is already a great deal of prep work to powder coat these and keep the price reasonable.

If you have an interest in something beyond that, call us and we will see what we can do.

I have a few bare covers available. The labor involved in modifying one would affect the price unless you wished to do the work.

I'm fine with some extra costs involved, I just don't want to get a freshly coated valve cover and then hack it up. Mine is already cut, so if you want to tell me what I need to do to prep it, I might just pull mine off and do that.

[trickyrix]

I'm fine with some extra costs involved, I just don't want to get a freshly coated valve cover and then hack it up. Mine is already cut, so if you want to tell me what I need to do to prep it, I might just pull mine off and do that.

Just yank it off and pull out the baffles and any rubber/plastic bits.

[jeepinbanditrider]

Yup, Mercury Capri. You'd be looking for the 3rd gen (91-94). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Capri

Semi-interesting side note: When I worked at a shop in NJ, back when I was still a Z32 guy, a guy came into the shop with a modded turbo Capri. He let me drive it like it was my own car, and it was rather quick. At the time I didn't have any turbo Miata experience, so I didn't realize it's practically the same motor.

Other side question: you ever put in your intercooler? I'd still like to see how it was recommended to move the AC stuff, if you don't mind.

Oh yeah I was sopoused to get you that disk. I'm going to Mineral Wells this weekend which is where the disk is at so I'll grab it and bring it back and then link up with you somewhere to give it to ya. It basically involved cuting/removing a few of the line brackets on the condenser and then notching and bending the drier bracket.

[Rob®]

I figured it wasn't anything that I couldn't figure out myself, but it's always nice to see how it's been done already, you know? For all I know it might not even work in my case anyway, but I would still like to take a peek.

[jeepinbanditrider]

I figured it wasn't anything that I couldn't figure out myself, but it's always nice to see how it's been done already, you know? For all I know it might not even work in my case anyway, but I would still like to take a peek.

The hardest part was the drier bending. Trying to figure out how much it needed to bend to clear the I/C tubing coming from the intercooler into the intake manifold was the hardest part. Was afraid I was going to screw up the A/C hardlines in the process but they bent pretty good.