xBrandonx

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Nothing better to do since I don't have a job, so I went to town and cleaned my engine up a bit.

I only did the top of the motor, here's a before and after shot. The bottom of the motor looks like hell. This took about 2 hours to do. I can see the valve covers now LOL! I used Simple Green, Water, Scuff pad (for intake manifold), Lots of Elbow Grease and Armor All and tons of rags. I used spray on wax for the engine bay painted areas to give it a little shine. It looks a lot better in my opinion. I didn't take anything apart so it was hard to get to certain spots. I was gonna put a Flowmaster sticker on the right side of the radiator cover (which is why it doesn't have Armour All on it, but I couldn't find it)

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omarrakeen

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HOLYSHIT man resize those photos

xBrandonx

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Hahaha, just zoom out, hold down CTRL on the keyboard and scroll the mouse wheel down, it will resize it that way....

Then when your done push CTRL and 0 (the one above the letters or it won't work) to go back to the default zoom.

ZeeSNuttS

Clean it up nicely with a LS1 in that baby

good job man!

xBrandonx

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Hahaha, I wish

Nathan C

Looks better! Did you lose your job?

xBrandonx

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It was a temporary job through my High School, it was only for the school year plus the Summer....

ZexGX

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WAAAY better now. I recommend throwing the Armor All in the garbage can though and buying a quality plastic/rubber trim dressing like Surf City Garage Dash Away, Lucas Slick Mist, some sort of "Adams" brand plastic dressing, or anything that doesn't have alcohol in it like Armor All & Mothers Back to Black; alcohol will cause plastics to fade and turn gray.

xBrandonx

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I do have some Mothers Plastic Polish, was gonna use that but there wasn't much left...

ZexGX

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DON'T USE THAT ON ENGINE BAY PARTS. It is an abrasive compound and is only supposed to be used on GLOSSY plastic to remove scratches, like tail light lenses, gauge cluster lenses, plastic headlight lenses, etc.

xBrandonx

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Oh lol, good thing I didn't do that then

imma_stocker

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You should know that Armor All will destroy plastic and rubber.... It makes stuff shiny by drawing the oils out to the surface. The oil in plastic and rubber keep it together and prevent cracking.

Try some better stuff or use vasoline like the ol' days before all these fancy sprays.

xBrandonx

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My Dad's been using Armour All since he was a kid and he said none of his stuff ever cracked.