Crazy idea for the Type IV engine shroud..., ..but I think it would look crazy good! Options

[horizontally-opposed]

So I've seen a lot of people do interesting things with the stock Type IV shroud to make it look more interesting. Body color, silver, red, orange, you name it. But none of these has really appealed to me. I've thought about ideas like CF (too modern for the car for my tastes) and wrinkle black (the way I would probably go). But then I saw the shroud in this thread:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=81971

I like this color, as it reminds me of the old Bosch distributor caps. But then THAT got me to thinking about another material I associate with this color, and that's the ultra-trick and way cool naked fiberglass Porsche used to use on 906/911R motors as well as throughout the 908s and 917s. Morspeed has duplicated it, albeit at far higher levels of quality and MUCH higher gloss, for its restorations.

Question is, could it be done for reasonable money? Could the stock shroud be used to make a mold? I frankly can't think of a cooler looking, period-correct hotrod 914-4 engine bay than this setup with a pair of carbs so long as the finish can be nailed. I think I'd like it even better than the Fat Perf. setup and the DTM, though I know it wouldn't outperform the latter.

pete

[Jake Raby]

This engine has intake ports that flow 225 CFM, these are the only port that has outflowed the capability of a Weber IDF to date, hence the use of an IDA.These ports have the volume to overcome the characteristics that make an IDA equipped TIV hard to tune.

This car was built (including the engine) in 3 weeks time by Blake and myself for a single day of competition at the SE Dyno Day. Due to that we did not have time to install and tune the EFI system that would generally be used with this arrangement.

IDAs in 95% of instances do not work well with the characteristics of the TIV heads, this is the odd 5% situation where they do work very effectively.

That said IDAs were my last and only resort to beat the Cali guys given the time I had to get the job done.