What do you clean your engine with, and how often do you clean it?

 

Orange Clean does the job.

 

I start with an old rag. Then move to a wet old rag. Then finish it off with a dry old rag. For the tough stuff I use a bit of simple green. Engine cleaners are silly in my opinion as they hurt the environment and make baby Jesus cry.

Fox

 

what if you're buddhist?

 

Oven cleaner has worked well for me

 

Spray it down, spray it simple green, scrub with a brush, then rinse it off. Then I dry it off and Armorall the rubber I've received lots of compliments of having one of the cleanest engines people have ever seen.

 

 

^^^ my bro and I rave about how well Armor-all holds up on all the rubber hoses and such under the hood. But before that, I use a $1 can of Gunk Engine-Brite. Use a smaller hand spray on mist mode...works well with me.

 

I just use this stuff called orange blast. Works great! Also I use blue magic metal cleaner for all the metal (rods,headers, etc) THen I polish it all up with some tire dressing (meguiars hot tire shine). Here's a pic of my engine all shined up...sorry for the poor quality.

 

its all about the degreaser. any degreaser will do (orange stuff, engine degreaser, etc).

I follow this article here and it comes out awesome:

http://www.bettercarcare.com/articles.php?articleId=25

 

$1 engine degreaser from AutoZone. Works great.

 

where did you get the braided radiator hoses from?

 

smokin, it's a ractive engine hose dress up kit, but actually you could go to autozone and pick up a no name brand there. It's exactly the same.

 

that's my engine bay!

 

wow.. looks uber clean!


I just use industrial gunk , $3 from local parts store. Spray it, let it sit for 10 mins, rinse off, start car! DONE!