Right my fellow pasionforders i need some help, I've just bought this rocker cover and havnt seen 1 before can anyone give me some infomation about it.

Be good if the Power Engineering guys could help me out here.

 

werent powers involved in the development of the rs turbo in some way

rare find you have there

 

er, at a guess its a cvh ally rocker cover made by/for power engineering!

 

MONSTER yes mate it is an alloy cvh rocker cover

 

nice little touch..

how much out of interest?

 

DaveEscos Ł50 which i thought was ok seen as the rs1600i covers sell for that

 

Looks very much like a 16i cover, minus the FORD MOTORSPORT bit in the middle....

 

Looks pretty smart, not seen 1 before either

would look nice powder coated black with the PE bit polished

 

sweet buy there mate

 

yep was quite impressed with it myself, might just have it all polished monster rather that paint or powdercoat it

 

Looks smart

 

My guess its its off one of there old xr3 turbo conversions. can any of you remember there red old skool xr3 demo car ?

 

thats old skool, i think they were late 80's early 90's, Ians's not here today, he'll be able to tell me what they were fitted to by ourselves.

 

Dont fully polish it you'll spoil it imo.. nice find though

 

cheers Matt if you could get me some info it would much appreciated

 

The filler cap is interesting, as the 16i covers had a screw cap filler cap, rather than puch on like the normal CVH covers. It wasn't a threaded screw cap tho, it was one of them ones you half turn and it locks into place.

When I got my 16i cover, the cap was missing, and Ford said you can't get em anymore. I tried a metal cap from a Nova 1.2 SOHC engine and it fitted perfectly. Quick polish up and it looked spot on aswell

Then a year later I found a Ford one at an Autojumble for a tenner

 

i am also looking for a real 1600i oil cap

 

Good luck! They are like rocking horse shit!!!! There is less of them than there are rocker covers

Seriously, Vauxhall Nova, SOHC engine (injection model I think) had a nice metal cap that fits PERFECTLY.

 

Hansenturbo the caps pop up now & again on a forum i use so i'll keep and eye out for you

I use a VW cap on 1600i cover

 

Keep it as it is, Dont polish it

 

not a bad idea Rad

 

thanks lot m8

 

 

Power Engineering made these in fairly large batches around 1990. The aluminium does a slightly better job of damping the valve train noise than the thin steel of the standard cover. Unfortunately for PE jsut as they started selling them Ford sold off all their RS 16i covers at half the price PE were asking for their's so not may were sold which led PE to put them on offer to Performance Ford readers - if anyone can remember that far back. The old school PE lot like Mervyn had to spend hours machining the fins flat on those things.

 

That looks the bollox.

 

ebay

 

thats what i'd do

 

Cheers for the info Keith just managed to get my hands on an old copy of Performance ford showing the offer

Funny you should say that Stu H its exactly the place i bought it off

 

Performance Ford tested an XR2 with one of PE's 'Power Pack' conversions. Came with a guaranteed 120bhp and the one in the mag had a yellow PE cam cover with the fins machined so they had silver tops - looked nice

 

12 years on ...i.paid Ł250 .

 

back in the days when power+ were a decent tuner with a rolling rd, now a shadow of them former self

 

Wasn't Dick involved with the Ford rally team, or, at least, worked at Boreham?

 

Rsmat. Were you at RSCombe? I am sure I saw the rocker cover on a car there?

 

I think he was stu, they used be a great workshop visited there many times nowadays its prob one of the last places to go to in my car related days

 

No mate unfortunately I was balls deep in DIY at the new house .

 

I remember, back in about 1992, I had to go there as part of developing an exhaust for my efi orion, as the brand I bought, didn't do an efi version... Went for the final fit up, had to go on the rollers, where the sump gasket pissed oil everywhere, which in turn buggered up a rolling road photoshoot for one of the Ford mags... Oops! Lol

 

That cover was on a RS 1600i grey one.

 

I thought it was, so was it this rare rocker cover that is in the old thread?

 

Mines been on the car since Xmas ...there is a few out there tough but just a rare now