Thread: Front Motor Mount Brackets..

i know but i cant powder coat...hey i have seen people with LS2 oil caps, how did you get one of them?

Farns such a nice bay,but you need to ditch the stock bolts for some stainless or chrome.

where do you get the stainless bolts?

tsc?

Tractor Supply Company. I got mine from Home Depot. A good hardware store may have them too.

oh ok yeah

I cant powder coat, and don't even want to do it myself. I have a local company do it for me. Affordable for how long it lasts. Pick a color, they have well over 100 colors to choose from. My red I choose is called "Red Barron Red".

I had the girlfriends GTP done to in blue. Hers is called "Signal Blue".

Thats kinda a bad picture, its a darker blue than that:


Friend Jeremy had his done in "Candy Purple" or "Candy Metallic Purple".


As for my bolts on my side braces and what not...ya they look like crap. I'm going to take the stock ones off and have them hard chromed here in the next few days while my cars up on jack stands. Shoot might as well, should of done that a long time ago.

I would switch to stainless bolts, but I don't like how others have a little small headed bolt, or allen head and this huge ass washer to cover up the grooves the stock bolts with affixed washer left behind. Just ugly with that, but the bolts do look good.

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Originally Posted by GP2003GT

hey i have seen people with LS2 oil caps, how did you get one of them?

Go to ebay.com and search for "LS1 billet oil cap" or "LS1 oil cap" and happy shopping.
The oil fill caps from a LS1 engine will work on our cars, exactly the same, as long as the billet was machined correctly. For $16.00 these sell for, thats really-really cheap for these being true billet aluminum, and with a custom top cover that sticks on. Tell the seller GR8racingfool sent ya, hes a great guy to do business with.

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Originally Posted by GR8racingfool

Go to ebay.com and search for "LS1 billet oil cap" or "LS1 oil cap" and happy shopping.
The oil fill caps from a LS1 engine will work on our cars, exactly the same, as long as the billet was machined correctly. For $16.00 these sell for, thats really-really cheap for these being true billet aluminum, and with a custom top cover that sticks on. Tell the seller GR8racingfool sent ya, hes a great guy to do business with.

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I bought mine off ebay. Is there a difference in the LS1 and LS2 cap? Just curious. Because I bought the LS2 cap and it would'nt turn and lock in. So I took the dremmel and shaved the thread on the cap and increased the angle so the nub would catch the thread groove. It then fit snug enough not to loosen. I didnt want to dammage the nub on the valve cover so I didnt push it too far. I figure as long as its snug and doesnt leak I am AOK.

ok thanks for that info...ill see what i can do, i wish i could find someone to powder coat for me, i dont even know where one is around where i live, how much they charged you?

Originally Posted by David99GTP

I bought mine off ebay. Is there a difference in the LS1 and LS2 cap? Just curious. Because I bought the LS2 cap and it would'nt turn and lock in. So I took the dremmel and shaved the thread on the cap and increased the angle so the nub would catch the thread groove. It then fit snug enough not to loosen. I didnt want to dammage the nub on the valve cover so I didnt push it too far. I figure as long as its snug and doesnt leak I am AOK.

I don't believe there is any difference between the caps from the different motors. When really, there isn't all that much difference between the LS1 to LS2 really.

What your describing is a flaw with his design. The groove is cut in the cap, but it has a rather sharp edge to it, so when you use it, it actually "saws" at our little plastic pin that the cap threads onto thats attached to the valve cover. What you did by rounding the edges of the machined groove is a good, and the correct fix for these. I have notified him of his flaw, but don't know if he changed it or not. But its a easy fix, any body can do safely.

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Originally Posted by GP2003GT

ok thanks for that info...ill see what i can do, i wish i could find someone to powder coat for me, i dont even know where one is around where i live, how much they charged you?

Open the your local yellow pages, and search under metal coatings or metal finishing and see if anybody lists that as a service.

I have many people send me their stuff from all over to be powder coated here. They don't charge all that much, if your up for the shipping and what not. Usually takes about 3 weeks tops for powder coating to be done, and they charge by what they have in them, time, and material wise. If your picking a color they normally do, or run, then its a pretty cheap job cause they can just toss it in with other work.

White
Gloss Black
Red
Silver and Metallic Silver are among the colors they normally always run.

They have hundreds of colors to choose from, so the only limitation is your imagination. The company I use for my work also does the powder coating for Big Dog Motor Cycles since their world head quarters is located here in Wichita.

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Originally Posted by archemedes

Powder Coating Guns: HotCoat and HotCoat Pro Powder Application Guns and Equipment
buy a kit, and an oven and do your own for under $200 alot of the guys from my camaro board have the kit and love them

I wondered how well this worked. I see those kits in the eastwood catalog and was curious if it was worth it. I havent been able to talk to anyone with it.

I may invest in one in the future.

yeah ill have to look around for powder coating people, i would buy the kit but i dont think my parents would like seeing car parts in their oven lol...

...unless i convince them otherwise lol