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I just spent all day cleaning out my engine bay and i want to show it off a bit.<p>Heres the pic before
Image<p>And some pics after.
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Image<p>I sanded and polished my valve cover, and used engine degreaser on the rest of the engine bay and wiped it out with some shop towels.<p>Now i just got to get rid of a bit of that rust on the black bar near the hood latch. I think it looks ok. What do you guys think?<p>[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: newfmx3 ]</p>
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Very Nice! Good job, wanna do mine :)
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sure was dirty before
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sweet mother of mary jesus.. i have so forgotten what the stock setup looks like udner the hood, looks good though.<p>
Granted this is what i am used to starin at when i pop the hood.. i should get a new picture given there are a couple new changes.<p>Image
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hey man
i want to do the same thing too
but could you tell me what i should buy
metal polish and what else?
Now i want to sell some parts of my car in order to cover the expense for fixing the car -_-
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all i used was castrol engine cleaner/degreaser (purple spray bottle) and some Mothers Mag & Aluminium Polish (after i snaded the valve cover.
And a roll of blue shop towels to clean it up. cost me about $12 altogether.
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by newfmx3:

Now i just got to get rid of a bit of that rust on the black bar near the hood latch. I think it looks ok. What do you guys think?<p>[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: newfmx3 ]
<hr></blockquote><p>Well that bar would be your radiator so I would say paint it with a heat resistant paint. Great job on the cleaning. You know you could make a killing if you did that kind of work on the side.
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thanks man
I will try to do it this monday
hopefull it will look better
Now i want to sell some parts of my car in order to cover the expense for fixing the car -_-
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Post by urnvsofMX3 »

Hey good job you can really see that you paid close attention to detail. Did you do it by hand or did you wash out with like a pressure washer or something?
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I did everything by hand. I just used some of those blue shop towels (they look like regular paper towels except there blue) and wiped the grime out after i sprayed the bay with engine degreaser. The valve cover i sanded by hand with differnt grit papers.. starting at 100 and working up to 1500. and then i just polished it with moters mag and aluminium polish. Thanks for the comments.
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Looks great man! wow! :eek:
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