cleaning the engine bay*~ update with HUGE pics*~*
05-12-2004, 12:51 PM
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Re:cleaning the engine bay
Proper way to paint an engine bay (even in primer) would be to pull everything out, then ruff up the paint, shoot it with primer.
I usually tend to go with the full frame off restoration approach. Strip it all the way down, sand blast it to bare metal. Seems like I only do it to here and there on a car, one day I'm going to go all out and do a frame off restoration.. once I get a car that's worth it (like a 1974 Porsche 911)
I usually tend to go with the full frame off restoration approach. Strip it all the way down, sand blast it to bare metal. Seems like I only do it to here and there on a car, one day I'm going to go all out and do a frame off restoration.. once I get a car that's worth it (like a 1974 Porsche 911)
05-12-2004, 02:04 PM
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Re:cleaning the engine bay
holy crap, ive never reached a bandwidth limit with tripod before, cheap bastards. Ive ran some pretty heavy traffic sites before too on there, weird. It wont even let me go in and veiw it in the filemanager to save it and upload it somewhere else, i deleted the actual pics...
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pics are huge, cant figure out how to resize them using vbb code...
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pics are huge, cant figure out how to resize them using vbb code...
05-13-2004, 12:34 PM
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Re:cleaning the engine bay*~ update with HUGE pics*~*
DAMN, clean that ---- up, lol...
I guess it looks better, i like having the engine bay gloss, like the rest of the car, give that thing a wash, soak it down with simple green, scrub some stuff, then spray the suspension and stuff to cover up the old metal, lol.. Mine is one big cover up, but last a long time. I jsut recently, like yesterday, did my new engine bay on my new crx, it was insanly dirty, had a thick layer of like adhesive in the whole bay, i had to scrub it for hours. But it came out pretty good, jsut now the wiring looks like crap, need to move it inside the car, like on my old rex. But ill show you what i did to mine...
I guess it looks better, i like having the engine bay gloss, like the rest of the car, give that thing a wash, soak it down with simple green, scrub some stuff, then spray the suspension and stuff to cover up the old metal, lol.. Mine is one big cover up, but last a long time. I jsut recently, like yesterday, did my new engine bay on my new crx, it was insanly dirty, had a thick layer of like adhesive in the whole bay, i had to scrub it for hours. But it came out pretty good, jsut now the wiring looks like crap, need to move it inside the car, like on my old rex. But ill show you what i did to mine...
05-13-2004, 12:37 PM
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Re:cleaning the engine bay*~ update with HUGE pics*~*
you call that cleaning...hahaha...your just covering it up. and your valve cover is hideous. should have used carb cleaner to clean the whole bitch down. then degreaser. then wash it down. start your car and spray armoral everywhere and let it run. and the VOILA!! everythings all nice and shiny. even your harness and your hoses. simple as that.
05-13-2004, 01:21 PM
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Re:cleaning the engine bay*~ update with HUGE pics*~*
I didn't want the "shinny" look. But yes valve cover is well pathetic. it wasn't very greasy at all i was surprised
I had to clean some parts, i degreased my motor no I just have to get a valve cover gasket and get my valve cover powder coated, not sure what colour yet though. And get an oil cap and rad cap cause the mexican that owned it before me must have thought it looked good?? also have to trace back those red and blue wires from my recent A/C removal.
I had to clean some parts, i degreased my motor no I just have to get a valve cover gasket and get my valve cover powder coated, not sure what colour yet though. And get an oil cap and rad cap cause the mexican that owned it before me must have thought it looked good?? also have to trace back those red and blue wires from my recent A/C removal.
05-13-2004, 01:37 PM
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Re:cleaning the engine bay*~ update with HUGE pics*~*
Yeah, i moved the fuse box inside the car, under the ac stuff, pretty easy, just lots of tugging, and you have to unplug the fuse box, then extend the wires for teh starter and battery, but then i moved my battery into my cargo compartment. Im using a hawker GE13, small *** battery, ahd it for quite som etime onow on two cars, never let me down. In that pic, it was on the lower side passenger side wall, you cant see it, but you can see teh wires going to it down below.
