Rocker covers quite hot after a 6/7minute trip, this normal?

[youngprodigys]

hiya guys- how hot does your rocker cover get after say, 10minutes on. no thrashing just a puttle up the bypass at 50/60mph.

its been so long since i drive my G that i cant remember. my rocker cover is scalding after 10minutes. i have an oil cooler fitted amd the oil pressure is good.

is it worth fitting a breather to the rocker cover?

[AlexG40]

They get pretty hot tbh. I wouldn't want to lick it put it that way.

[youngprodigys]

i know they get hot - i just dont know how hot - if i have a problem i kinda wana sort it lol.

[Yoof]

Will probably be at least 70'C mate

[Jezza-7]

Burnt my arm on mine yesterday.

Then again after my piston melted and that was ridiculously hot!

[youngprodigys]

pretty hot then, wonder if theres any way to cool it down a bit? hmmmm might weld some fins to my spare that ive got for my 1W turbo

[Jezza-7]

Well i thought about this and the only thing i can think of is that if your running a charger with the boost mod, you can get a pipe to fit from the throttle body to the rocker cover so its always putting air through.

Or you could fit a different rocker cover and have a breather going off it to let some heat escape.

[youngprodigys]

i welded that up! il just live with it i reckon, i have a spare rocker so i may experiment i dunno yet

[dub-disaster]

I seem to remeber a very rare rocker on a g60 that had lots of fins on it to act as a heat sinc was in a past issue of pvw I'll dig it out later if you want ?

[youngprodigys]

its on kennys rallye, the proper mint black one with crackle black engine bay iirc. i know which you mean and that is exactly what im thinking.

[dub-disaster]

thought i remembered it from some where. looked realy nice you could proably re-create something like that especialy if your handy with a tig welder

[Justin14100]

anyone got a shot of that?