And get some good looking engines in the next Camaro?

The Silverado SST concept had a beautifully done LSx engine. I can't find any images of it though.

I remember it had polished C5R valve covers with the coils moved to the back of the engine.
No "beauty cover" required.

 

Given GM are looking to save costs, why not delete engine covers, period?

When profitability is restored, maybe GM might look into bringing out some decent covers?

 

Please do! If I get sick of looking at the engine (can't imagine that I would....) I can close the hood. We don't need a piece of plastic hiding the engine to make it look good under the hood.

 

I dunno, I think the one on my GTP looks pretty good......

 

I don't know, 4th gen LS1s look horrible under the hood. Yeah the intake looks cool, but other than that all you see is hoses wires, and coils. I guess if things were tucked away it would look alot better, but there is very limited space in the 4th gen.

 

Most of the covers are for NVH purposes.

 

If you don't like the covers, it takes 5 seconds to pop them off. Coil relocation kits are readily available.

 

i agree. lets get rid of them id prefer to see the engine when i pop the hood

 

LS1 is an ugly engine. I believe they ran out of time and resources to clean it up. I don't mind the looks personally, but in the Corvette with the covers it looks much nicer.

Covers now a days are a different story. They seem to cover the whole dang engine compartment! Maybe they should just dump the hood and keep the engine cover instead.

 

i dont really mind the covers like the vettes and gtos have but things like this are just absurd:

 

 

That's not really the point.

 

I don't like whole engine covers either, ones like the vette are ok in my book, they make things a little cleaner looking, but I can't stand the ones like on the CTS-V.
One of the first things I did to my LT1 Caprice was remove the huge silencer on top of the engine also known as the homeplate. I went for a while without anything and then later got a Corvette LT1 cover kit.

I liked it when intakes took on an almost work of art look to them, like back in the 80s with the TPI vette and IROC-Z engines, and the Taurus SHO engine.

 

That's a bad example. There is no way that is production feasible.

 

My truck has an engine cover, and I have another theory as to why the manufacturers are so into them these days: everything is plastic.

With plastic intakes and fuel rails, all of the associated plumbing that has to go on top of the engine ends up looking less than what gearheads consider cool, so they plop some piece of plastic on there to hide the mess.

With a few exceptions (L98, Taurus SHO) few engine compartments have looked very cool since all of the smog systems and attendant vacuum lines and whatnot started cluttering things up in the early 70's, IMO.