You seem to be going down the same path I did when I tried doing larger and larger parts, HOW in the H@LL do I fit this in there!!!! Well, if I were you, and if your limited to what you have. You may want to try and fab up some support legs on that bottom rack. Just high enough to keep it off the element. The metal the elements are made out of, even if they have legs, are only meant to hold their own weight, not the weight of a valve cover. If you are like me, later on down the road, you are bound to put something heavier on it and sooner or later, the element is going to bend all out of whack. If you have a welder, you can just weld some bolts or some round stock to the corners. If you don;t have a welder, go to a hardware store and search for some small U-clips that you can bolt around the existing rack and, say a bolt, to firmly hold them in place at the sides. It would be easier this way to slide the rack in with the part on top as well, and eliminate any hot spots due to direct contact with the element itself.
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