Engine bay project

98PAITR

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I did a little more than just detail, but here are the products used.



-Purple Power Degreaser

-Meg's Hot Rims on the block/tranny case

-Meg's Body Scrub

-Meg's Cleaner Wax

-Mother's Reflections Wax

-Megs NXT Polish





A few months back I started an engine bay clean-up and have a few pics of my progress along the way. I did a small wire tuck, did some polishing, and added a few show pieces along the way.



Here is the bay about a week after I bought the car. You can notice the wires on the strut tower from the headlights, battery, and washer bottle.



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Got bored one night and rerouted the driver's side headlight harness through the fender, alont with the washer fluid lines. I alsow painted the washer bottle flat black and added a header, ingition, pulleys and a few dress up parts.



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Next I painted the wire cover gloss black, made some customer carbon fiber covers for the fuse boxes, and added a GReddy carbon kevlar cooling plate to clean up the rad area. At this point I was still to lazy to start messing with the wires an the pass. side.



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Yesterday I finally had some free time to finish the pass. side. I ran the wires that I could throught the fender, shortened up some of the battery wires, and cleaned up the ground wires. The I degreesed the engine bay and used Meg's hot rims on the block and tranny case. After the bay was dry I used Meg's body scrub, cleaner wax, and Mother's Reflections wax on the painted parts. Finally I took a drymel and some polish and polished the p/s line and motor mount. Here's some finished pics.



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...and some shots of the whole car:



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Thanks for looking comments/Questions welcome.
 
Nice job, a trick I like to use in engines is to spray some cheap tire foam in the areas that you cant get to to clean. That way, everything is black and nice!
 
that looks great! i did a similar thing to my CR-V, but never finished because a fool who changed my oil didn't put the fill cap back on and well, hot oil smoldering everywhere wrecks havoc on pretty much everything in the bay.



what can be done to the headers to get them looking as good as everything else? i used to have comptech headers that looked like that, but my buddy cleaned them up somehow and they were breathtaking when he gave them back to me! I just love how they turn slightly golden!
 
dgoff07 said:
that looks great! i did a similar thing to my CR-V, but never finished because a fool who changed my oil didn't put the fill cap back on and well, hot oil smoldering everywhere wrecks havoc on pretty much everything in the bay.



what can be done to the headers to get them looking as good as everything else? i used to have comptech headers that looked like that, but my buddy cleaned them up somehow and they were breathtaking when he gave them back to me! I just love how they turn slightly golden!





If it was stainless steel, you pretty much can't do anything to them because usually if water gets on it and the header heats it up, there are stains on it. I tried polishing but really didn't help that much. This is the reason i bought some ceramic headers for my 350z.
 
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