Hey All. I'm looking to finally get under the hood (and the car, for that matter) and get the Max cleaned up, especially in the engine bay. Eventually I want to polish the Intake and paint the valve covers, along with nice wirelooms, grounding wires, blue NGK wires, new paint, matching battery color (blue) and tie down, radiator and oil cap, etc. I just got a used PR CAI that I had a friend airbrush dark blue with lightning patterns running along it. I'll post pics once I get it installed.

I was thinking it would be nice to see other member's engine bay pics and descriptions of what they did to clean up and/or make their engine bays look (and perform) top notch.

So, let's see 'em. As soon as I get mine cleaned up in the next few days, I'll post pics. It's been way too long, so this is it.

Thanks,

Mrkanda

 

check out the pics of Michael's car in the 3rd gen project thread - that guy is a master!

EDIT: found it for you

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=482152

 

Mine is not quite up to michael's standards of nice,but it is clean..

 

thanks...


mrkanda you have a VG so yours will not look like mine or mygreenmax's but I will include some pics of mine anyway. DanNY has a nicely done VG with polished intake and PC valve covers along with some chrome...very nice.

anyway here are my pics so you dont have to dig through my thread.

 

Awsome engine, Michael, and actually, I did "bother" and already read through the whole thread on your engine bay project. VERY impressive! I wish I had the time and an awsome mentor like you to show me "how it's done". And as a reply to your VG-related post, I will look at DanNY's. I think I saw someone else's, I think on CarDomain, with a polished IM. I eventually want to do a turbo (maybe engine-) swap, so I'll follow the guys who've done it before me (btw, how do you guys do all those cool smiley faces?)

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...04_96_full.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...04_97_full.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...4_100_full.jpg

 

nothing exciting here...

 

You take that back, dude your engine is gorgeously sparkly...I want mine like that but I lack t3h skill.

 

take that

 

Cleanest motor I ever had. Too bad I blew it up. Probably from the turbo I had on it for a little bit.

 

Where did you learn to wire tuck!?




















....kidding

 

Jeff, a couple of questions...

Did you really have a turbo?
If so, why did you take it off?
Is that you in your avatar?

 

Yes

To make a better manifold

No

 

It's not you?

 

nope.. Jeffy's uglier than that.
and yes, he DID have a turbo.. but he doesn't know how to drive and blew up too many engines so he sold the Maxima..

 

Thanks for clarifying, Matt...Here's a pic for y'all...

 

Thanks for clarifying Matt

You blew up an engine W/O a turbo!

 

I think that's the "I'm the real Borat so pay me" guy. Sorry to be off subject.
I want a write up on these techniques

 

1+ on that!

 

Poor thing only had 223,000 miles on it and blew up at the road course doing 130+mph in 4th gear.





Frankly, I'm surprised it lasted that long.

 

the only way to get to those hard to reach areas

all cleaned up

 

WOW

 

anybody have any tips on how to clean an ol vg up? especially need to figure out how to get all the dried up rust that my radiator spewed everywhere when it went bye bye...i even tried gojo and it didnt work lol

 

I used corse wire brush on le drill then fine...its not nice and chromed like DanNY's here but its pretty spotless and I usually get a lot of admiration from shops and some people who've seen my engine. I usually get "wow I havent seen one of these this clean before"

So if you want just a clean engine, degrease it and (pressure) hose it down, then close hood and leave car on so water dries without leaving waterspots all over the place then just use the wire on the drill thing nice and evenly to get a decent clean look. I'll try to post le pics.

For degreaser I prefer Greased Lightning - Orange Blast, man that spray does wonders (keep away from paint unless you wanna de-wax also)

 

if you have some aging electric connectors and aging gaskets i would really avoid the pressure washers.

 

i sand blasted all my aluminum parts before swappin' in my engine. i have pics of it but haven't had a chance to post it up.

 

i remember seein' this guys engine on cardomain. he has a very nice and clean 3rd gen. just don't like the fact that he had to get rid of a/c.

 

as a matter of fact i have a pic of my old '89 SE engine bay after i swapped in my old '93 engine into it:

this is the cleanest i was able to get it after i swapped it into my old '89. my '93 looks a bit better though but i just have to find the pics.

 

Act / Fidanza crew:

 

Hey this isn't a write up
Is that all there is to make it nice and shiny???
I'm ready to Apply the technique to my wheels too

 

what's with the diet coke on a string?

 

i'm not uploading anything onto cardomain for goldie, you can kinda see the engine in this pic, and a far far dream i had

 

Rip Goldie Max

 

pouring out some liquor for my goldie....

 

redneck windchime

 

A clean engine bay is a happy engine bay.

 

What kind of Intake do you have? It looks like a cold air intake. Where did you route it? Below Headlight/ In Wheel Well? And did you do a write up on it? Thanks...
________
tiny **** Cam

 

what lights are you modding into Goldie?

 

aight. My cold air intake is actualy a conversion from a 93 accord CAI. u lose .25" diameter but its 80$ cheaper in parts then the Warpspeed CAI. I do not have a write up but I can do one for you if you want. also it is under my headlight bracket. :-p thanks for ?

 

none i believe he is scrapping it now.

 

what he said.
that picture is over 3 years old.