Hard evidence is they will leak, good luck stopping them from leaking and one day they will fall off and wipe out your engine.
Nothing going for them other than bling factor. But they're nice looking on a trailer queen that never sees any real road time.
You're right they do look cool, but of course we can't see them any better than we can get to the valves for adjustment.
I had heard they do leak and I bought these because they are the 4 bolt alum covers instead of 2 bolt.
Its funny...at my last valve adjustment I forgot I had new gaskets tucked away somewhere and installed the steel covers with the old hard gaskets...still no leaks after 3k miles. Now that I found the gaskets do you think I'm going to install them...NAAHH! Maybe I'll see how many adjustments I can get away with using the original gaskets.
Anyway, to be effective in cooling the oil, I wonder what volume of oil makes contact with the valve covers...oil splattering off the rockers to the valve covers vs just dripping to the bottom of the head. Is it correct to assume that a larger volume of oil goes thru the bearings?
I think I didn't pursue using them when I thought about the gaskets insulating the covers from the heads. Any racers out there who swear by alum covers? (PS Oops, thanks Brant)