has any body plished stock tpi valve covers? are they able to be done?

 

to the best of my knowledge all stock valve covers on F-body TPI applications were steel (though some were painted silver), so no they can't be polished. The Vette ones can, though.

 

If they were aluminum, they could be polished....but..I don't think ours are. I cleaned mine real good and painted black lines down'em....looks pretty good...

 

The corvette covers are an aluminum/magnesium composite and can be polished, but it's a bit of a gamble because the high magnesium count results in a lot of imperfections that show up as bumps or knots when it's polished. The TPI components suffer from this too, but my understanding is that it's much worse on the valve covers.

 

I polished my steel covers, and the cleared them..
Don't have any good pics..

 

I was not easy, and I ended up replacing them because they did not have quite enough shine for me

 

looks pretty good...but man, looks like you definently need a brand new set of tanks! That would really enhance everything!

 

84customZ28 did you just flip the drivers side valve cover around? i have never thought about that it would make filling the oil so much easier

 

i thought all centerbolt fbody valve covers had fill at the front

 

both my Formula and Iroc have them in the rear

 

guess somone might have switched mine... eh i should go outside and actualy look and make sure.... i have been cracked out latley...****ing boss is driving me insane.

 

I don't think you can flip the valve covers around, the holes are not perfectly centered. You can switch from left to right but not flip them end to end. Mines in the rear as well, but I remember reading a thread ages ago where this topic came up and apparantly some were done differently