Shaved Intake Lid

[NOVA98Cobra]

Hey guys, I took a break from SVTP for a hot minute but I'm back with new energy. I decided to try my hand at making a shaved intake lid just for fun. I have an 04 motor now and found an intake lid laying around so i figured wtf I'll try it. Anyway this has taken a good deal of time (especially for something I can't use) but it's comming along. What do you guys think of it so far/ would there be any interest in these if I get better at making ]them?

 

[ZeroDCX]

Looks great! Powder-coat it and sell. How long did it take you?

 

[NOVA98Cobra]

I spent like 8 hours on it so far. Do you think I should shave off the cobra plaque part and all those raised lines on the top or leave it and put on a new cobra after powder coat?

 

[Clayton351]

Leave the cobra. Ive been tempted toshave one for mine but I want to shave the egr, hide the iac and make Iit a front mount throttle body

 

[paintballpyro1]

Is there a hole in the lid? First picture, base of cobra like 2in down from raised center

 

[NOVA98Cobra]

Is there a hole in the lid? First picture, base of cobra like 2in down from raised center

Yea it grinded through. I have added metal to it sense and laid more aluminum on that spot

 

[96S/Cobra]

Great job op. Now powdercoat it and it will be awesome. I say leave the raised ribs and put on a new cobra plaque. Here are a few picks of mine I had done several years back. And as far as the cobra plaque, I bought a new one and painted it black. Then I took a piece of fine grit sand paper and wrapped it around a small block of wood (to keep it perfectly flat) just to take the paint back off the "raised" portion so the snake would stand out.

 

[NOVA98Cobra]

Looks great! Thank you for sharing! Can you give me any pointers on how to get it nice and professionally smooth? I'm about done with all the cutting, welding, and rough grinding. Any advice on the final steps would be greatly appreciated!

 

[19Mystic96]

looks great! I did the same to mine a while ago!

 

[96S/Cobra]

Looks great! Thank you for sharing! Can you give me any pointers on how to get it nice and professionally smooth? I'm about done with all the cutting, welding, and rough grinding. Any advice on the final steps would be greatly appreciated!

As you see in the first pic, this was after I had cut off the EGR and vacuum port, ground down the bulk of what was remaining with a carbide bit, then smoothed it out with a small 2" or so pneumatic die grinding wheel. I then had a friend weld up the two holes (I don't have the equipment or knowledge to weld aluminum) and then finished it off with a much less abrasive die grinding wheel. That was all I had done really. But as you can see, the powdercoat I had picked out is more of a "textured" coating, not just a smooth glossy powdercoat, so I don't know if that would make any difference visually when it's all done. But as you can see in the third pic, the intake looks factory and you can not tell anything was ever there to begin with.

 

[mysteed]

Very nice. I went a few steps beyond what you did to yours.

 

[NOVA98Cobra]

That's sexy^ if it was for my car I would do that and relocate the IAC, but his is just a side project I'll probably sell and keeping the stock IAC location probably makes install easiest for the most people.