fancy new Taida valve covers
 

Lookie!

232? Like in 232cc's?

Yup, you can get them in a couple of different versions. I just wanted the cooling fins.

How is that motor running?

It ran great, but I butchered the head getting the snapped valve cover bolt out. Also forgot to loc-tite the variator bolt and that spun off. May be a difference with the KDU crank, but the splines stick out a tiny bit beyond the variator fan, so I wasn't bolting to it tightly. probably need to put a washer over the splines (or next to the boss before the fan plate), then torque down the bolt with some loc-tite. Probably need to replace the fan plate as it got a little chewed up in the dismount, but the crank splines look ok. It was a bad idea to let it sit 3/4 put together for almost two years, forgetting what i had left unfinished. No worries, nothing hard to fix, but don't know how much riding I'll get done before the snow hits. I had originally jetted the mains way to heavy as well.