I want to know if you guys Clean your engine bays, and if so How? I figuered if you spraid any sort of water in the engine there could be consequenses.

My engine is all grimey and looks like steam stains. Replaced the radiator because of it, but the air intake manifold is stained. How can I Clean the engine bay? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

my car came with a clean engine bay

most people just break out the simple green and go to town

 

mine came with a dirty engine, and a clean engine doesn't necessarily make more power so f-it

 

then how am I so much faster than you?

 

come race me and we'll see

 

do what i did. swap a jdm ve in there....while its out, clean the shiit out of it. and clean the engine bay. then put that badboy in there. and walla, nice looking engine bay with a 30-60k motor...or you can just not worry about as long as it runs good.

 

I have those fears myself. But I have a friend who used to be a mechanic and he does it all the time to his 93 Honda Accord SE, and to other cars he's had, so I guess it's no biggie. :shrug:

 

he does what all the time? only thing suggested so far on this thread is simple green and going to town

 

I use all purpose cleaner and engine cleaner spray it on pretty much everything cept the alti. and coilpacks and fuse boxes etc.. then I let it sit than power wash it than dress all the plastic and rubber and call it a day.

 

 

Has any one else done this before? Im doing a Tune up this Saturday and While I was at it would Clean the Engine bay, but dont want to do somthing that would make the car stop runny.

N34JZ and you do this all the time right

 

I use Gunk Engine Brite for most stuff once, then just use weaker products to keep it sorta nice.

 

yes every car I detail I use the same procedure, why would I do it if it would mess up my car? Your not gonna mess up your engine, if youve got a VG just cover the distributor.

 

Spray Nine works wonders. We use it at work with an air gun hooked to a small hose of water. Just don't soak anything. And use the air gun to push away the water.

 

simple green and wipe it down, is wut i do, but some of the hoses still look a little faded and dirty no matter how much u wipe em down.....

 

+3 with the Simple Green. I used SG, a brillo pad, sponge, low water pressure to rinse it off and went to town. Tell me what you think.

 

Well, "all the time" meaning 2, *MAYBE* 3 times a year at the local DIY wash. He doesn't do it everytime he pops the hood or cleans the car.

He even did it to an old 87 Z24 I used to have, and no problems resulted.

 

first off i wasn't asking how often....if you look to what I said, It clearly states that I was asking WHAT (as in the action he does, cleans with what and how?)
you said...What do you mean when you say he does IT ???? IT is the keyword, what is it?

 

i took mine out of the car to clean it

 

Amen.

Having a open element filter tends to up the difficulty scale ever so slightly. That is if you don't have a CAI . I would like to have the engine running while I am rinsing it with water just so that I can stop when the engine starts to heave. But what I have always done is cover my K&N with a plastic bag, soak the engine bay with Simple Green, let it soak (the longer the better, unless your engine is hot, but still doesn't make much of a difference,) and rinse it off with high pressure at the car wash. I have never had an issue. Of course I don't hold the 90psi over my distributor, cover or not.

-Sean