[s-cars] cleaing the engine bay

[Taka Mizutani]

How do you powdercoat a plastic intake manifold? F-150 manifolds are
thermoplastic.

Or are you talking about that black Evo that I saw back in '04 that's in
some cowpatch in Ohio?

:-)

WD-40 works great for cleaning the engine bay, if you don't mind the fumes-
I witnessed a guy
doing just that on a Panoz Esperante race car at LRP, kind of funny.

I think that Gunk stuff works the same way as WD-40- the fumes are really
killer but it gets the
engine bay really clean- I usually try to let the car sit with the hood open
for at least a day after
using Gunk engine cleaner.

Taka


On 10/5/05, Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I second that. Every once in a while, I'll WD-40 everything and hit it
> with
> compressed air once it's started to dry. Salt/dirt doesn't tend to stick
> after you do that. If you really want to get goofy and can stand the
> downtime, take the valve cover and intake manifold off and have them bead
> blasted and powdercoated silver or black. You can also polish it, but
> that's
> a little too ricey for me.
>
> Joe
>