So how often do you guys clean your engines? What kinda stuff do you do? And how about the products the work best?

I usually just wipe everything down with Amor All or WD-40, and all the metal objects get some Mother's bilet polish.

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If you ever vacation to Connecticut I'd let you clean mine


Nice job

 

Simple green, a steam cleaner, and bluemagic polish for metal.

No pics though car's dirty, im tired so...

 

here ya go I just use Red High heat engine paint for touch ups , Mothers polish & tire shine whatever I show my car , I still have aluminium valve covers comming , Im making a new polished radiator cover, new polished throttle body elbow & I have a alternator case getting chromed , still have lots to go but Ill get there I take pride in my clean fast engine CHit it took me like 3-4 months to get it in & all hooked up it used to be a V6 .

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Heres my 94 that I sold last summer this was the way I set it up at the car shows!!

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JOSH

 

My last Z:

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Here are the pics of mine.

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i wish mine was as clean as all of yours, the all look good

 

Here's mine after the header/taylor ovc/trickflow elbow install...

http://home.indy.rr.com/bsmith60/94f.../motor-001.jpg

 

Mine's not very clean - just took it out for the summer and found out a mouse had made it's home on the intake manifold. There was yellow house insulation, mouse crap and **** all over it.

When I started it up a mouse ran out from the wheel well - my brother in law booted it.

 

My engine pics are on the Cardomain site, pretty clean....

 

Not a show car.... its only a "track" car.....

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Years ago, when i was a detailist, we would spray the motor with a degreaser or like chemical, then power wash it from almost ever angle possible to get all the debris and crap off it. Then the tricky part, yeah right, spray the crap out of it with a water based solvent...ie armor all. Close the hood and let dry as you clean the rest of the car then go back after all the water dries and wipe the motor and plastic pieces down and voila. But, I just read that the opti behind the water pump can get wet and foul up pretty bad if it gets sprayed...just how we used to do it.

 

i dfo as said above but usually i spray on some one step tire spray or cd2 engine datailer but i havent in a while because i am going to glue something to my rail covers so i dont want them to have any silicon on them

 

I detailed my engine every time I washed it from the beginning so I never had to use any degreasing agents. Now that it is not a daily driver, the job is easier. Mother's billet polish, windex, and armorall are my weapons of choice.

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