How To make Valve Cover Gaskets

I was fooling around with an engine tonight, and decided to make some valve cover gaskets., for this all you need is some thin sheet plastic and siccors. i just cut a few thin narrow strips wide enough so they stick out when the valve cover is on. then just paint them blue or red or whatever. this will be a DEI engine and the pictures i have they use blue gaskets., anyway thats all there is to that. you can see the effect when i place the unfinished valve cover on.

anyhow i think it looks cool, just thought i'd share it.

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Neat trick!I will try it. Do you think the width of the sheet should be thinner? and not stick out so much? 1:1 engines rarely have the gaskets sticking out several inches from the heads.

I will deffintely try this next time on my big block models.

great idea

Try craft paper, comes in a 1" thick book (for about $4.00) in all kinds of different colors. Any toy, or craft store sells it. Has a blue that's bang on for Fel-Pro.
Randy