im at about 62,000 and just washed my engine bay yesterday . lookin brand new ;]

 

how do you go about cleaning the engine bay just curious. im afraid to short something out just shooting it w/ a pressure washer

 

ˆI wash my car once a week and when I do I spend about 30 min wiping down everything I can with those clean wipes and armor-all wipes. I'm curious to hear other methods as well.

 

Just curious, have you changed your timing belt and all that jazz?

 

same here but you have to washe your engine when you hit puddles and **** the engine gets wet. lol.. i covered the intake, the throtle(the group of colored wires) alternater, and just a few wires i could see but nothing else really, i sprayed it down with the engine cleaner, then i have a nosle on the hose thats called mist setting you use that to wash it off, i repeated this 2 times then after i covered the alternater again and used engine detailer. The cleaner-degreaser is like 3$ and the detailer is like 8$.

 

if you spray engine detailer and it gets on the altenator.. lets just say call the fire department but they sell engine cleaner and degreaser at any auto parts store the engine is 99% waterproof anyway theres nothign to worryabout. just cover the things i said and also the fuse box.. i used tin foil easy to mold around stuff

 

what cleaner/degreaser would you recommend? any instructions on how to use it and did you have to mix it w/ water before you sprayed or just did it straight?

 

its a bottle made just for cleaning your engine, its engine cleaner lol. You spray it on your whole engine and it like foams up you let it sit for like 5 minutes then mist it down.. the repeat if you want.. so id buy 2 bottles. there is directions right on the can. idk what they have in chicago but go to like autozone , pep boys , R&S anthing like that(idk if you have them by you) lol. its easy alot of people clean their engine so its nothing to be worried about .. even though i was lol

i used a brand called gunk.. my friend said they ahve been around for a long time and he told me to use that and it worked good lol, and i got some random detailer. This was my first time cleaning an engine. My 60 year old uncle across the st cleans his once a month lol no worries my friend.. its like 1 12 am here in jersey so i gotta go to sleep anymore questions send me a messagee peaceee outtt


http://www.gunk.com/degreasers.asp

 

Looks really nice!

 

thanks man!

and all three of you, thanks for blowing up my gmail with those thirteen posts. jk.

and i was meaning to ask someone about the engine cleaning... so what all do i need to cover again?

battery
fusebox
group of colored wires next to throttle
alternator


(look in my garage, i have pics of my first car up.)

 

oh yeah, mine makes a sucking sound before it gets really loud, i havent noticed any particular rpm range, but it does that in every gear.
normal?

 

its normal w/ an sri. when you're at like 5-7k rpm i'd say

 

???

 

i personally have not changed it as i do not have the know how to do it but yes it was changed at the time around 60k when i had my engine implode on itself practically =] lol that was a thread on its own but it did give me a chance to upgrade to the P/P head from RRM

 

as soon as i give it gas you can hear it, and you hear it jstu as loud with every single gear. and you dont have to cover the battery. but DEF cover the intake lol. and jsut any wires you see around to just make sure yanno.