turbodave231
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I bought a nice pair of s2 valve covers off ebay last week, In the deal there was an 86-87 front wheel drive front cover with a cool looking cog belt pulley on the water pump and some nice welding in the pan area. I figured It would just make a doorstop and would be useless for my application.
The darn thing fits a rearwheel drive block!!! The suction and pressure passages line up. The only things missing would be the lower crank gear with the flats to drive the oil pump and a cam sensor. I believe a 85-88 3.0 dual cam/crank sensor will overcome the lack of cam sensor or put a magnet on the cam gear and use the 86-87 fwd cam sensor. This ought to work ok with my antique batch fire DFI or with a batch fire FAST system.
From what I know about these gerotor pumps, they can supply way more oil volume than is needed, which would be a great replacement for the gear driven pump (which in my opinion is a borderline design)
Kendal, I know you were trying to weld up a cover like this, but you had trouble with warpage.
Has anybody tried to use one of these covers on a turbo V6?
The darn thing fits a rearwheel drive block!!! The suction and pressure passages line up. The only things missing would be the lower crank gear with the flats to drive the oil pump and a cam sensor. I believe a 85-88 3.0 dual cam/crank sensor will overcome the lack of cam sensor or put a magnet on the cam gear and use the 86-87 fwd cam sensor. This ought to work ok with my antique batch fire DFI or with a batch fire FAST system.
From what I know about these gerotor pumps, they can supply way more oil volume than is needed, which would be a great replacement for the gear driven pump (which in my opinion is a borderline design)
Kendal, I know you were trying to weld up a cover like this, but you had trouble with warpage.
Has anybody tried to use one of these covers on a turbo V6?
Does the upper section line up with the block to seal above the water pump? On the one I used, it did not, which decided me against trying to use it as-is with the FWD cam sensor..which I think should work fine. 
