I want to have moon shaped cuts on my valve cover. Does anyone know a machine shop in the NY/NJ are that can do this for me?

I'm thinking about sending my valve cover to these people.
http://pmpdesigns.com/On-line_Store/...lve_cover.html

This means I'll have to buy a spare valve cover to avoid downtime.
Does anyone have any experiences with these people?

If anyone has a B18B 96+ valve cover, please let me know.
thanks

 

why

 

to tune cam gears while the valve cover is on.

 

If you have a steady hand and plenty of faith in yourself, you can easily do it at home with a hand-held jigsaw w/ metal-cutting blade. I've done it successfully.

Some local machine shops I cheked with before doing it myself seemed really confused about how to do it, so if you don't do it yourself, sending it away probably is your best bet.

good luck.

 

Were you able to cut half moon shapes like in the pics shown in the link provided?

 

If anyone doesn't want to click the link here you go.

 

Yep -- pretty clean, too. Aluminum is so soft, any roughness is easily cleaned up wit a Dremel or some sandpaper. Since the blades are long (they'd cut into the aluminum divider between the gears and valves), you have to cut the blades down short. I used one metal-cutting blade to cut another; later, I used tin snips -- both worked fine.

 

I don't think I'll have a shot in the dark if I tried it by hand. I think I agree with you, the best bet is to send it away, unless I find someone local.

BTW I'm still looking for a B18B valve cover 96+.
thanks

 

Definetly do-able with hand tools but not that cleanly!! An excellent price for the quality of work that they do. You can't get a machine shop to do it for that price. The only way I see you can do it manually is on a mill fitted fitted with a big assed cutter, fixturing on the table will take atleast 15min never mind the actually cutting. Cleanup done by the machinist or you will take some time as well. My advice... buy a replacement valve cover and sell yours.

My $0.02.

 

if you're gonna spend the ducketson a valve cover to hold yuou over for th edonw time why not just buy one on eby they sell the moon cut type r valve cover all the time and they go for 130 or so jdm or usdm. why spend 60-80 on another one. it jsut doesn't make snse unless you can get it for under thirty bux

 

he has a nonvtec motor so that valve cover would not fit .

 

thanks

 

clean

 

Why does it seem like the section of the valve cover that covers the cam gears is at a different angle as the rest of the valve cover?

 

That seems to be a H22 motor.

 

Here's a shot of a B series motor for you lazy people who don't want to click on the link.