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Old 01-04-2012, 10:57 PM
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just finished engine bay for world of wheels

just finished cleaning the engine bay for world of wheels in march hope you like
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Re: just finished engine bay for world of wheels

looks really good.what did u use to clean the bay?
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I am the second owner the car was very well kepy i just polished the tpi system i use royal purple on everything else
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Looks good! Very tasteful.
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That looks horrible, I was able to see some lint using a magnifying glass........j/k

Man that looks awesome, great job & great looking engine bay!!!!
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great thanks
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Re: just finished engine bay for world of wheels

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That looks horrible, I was able to see some lint using a magnifying glass........j/k

Man that looks awesome, great job & great looking engine bay!!!!
Lol! At First I Thought You Was Serious!! By The Way, "89 350" The Car And Engine Bay Look Great!!
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Hit up moderndaymuscle.com and get yourself a new coolant overflow tank. They all seem to yellow over time and a new white one will stand out. Looks great. BTW, the coolant tank is only $20, and the change it makes is worth so much more.
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Re: just finished engine bay for world of wheels

Looks great way better than mine. If I can offer one piece of advice get a new coolant tank. The yellowish fading one just does not do your bay justice.
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Re: just finished engine bay for world of wheels

Now you can start hiding all the wires Looks great so far, much better than the other thirdgens that I saw at the chicago one last march. Had teal and green and purple wire loom all over....my jaw hit the floor.
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Re: just finished engine bay for world of wheels

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Hit up moderndaymuscle.com and get yourself a new coolant overflow tank. They all seem to yellow over time and a new white one will stand out. Looks great. BTW, the coolant tank is only $20, and the change it makes is worth so much more.
Great recommendation. If you show your car often you should keep the new one as a show bottle, and swap it for the old one when doing cruises and such. Will help keep it brand new looking longer sitting on a self.
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thanks for the info ordering a new tonight do you guys know if the 82-88 coolant bottle will work on my 89 thanks

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I'm loving the TPI, valve covers, and the AC condensor! So what I am wondering is did you just polish the parts or did you get them chrome plated? I really want to know because that looks awesome.
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Looks amazing, good job
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I wound up polishing the stock parts i had ordered a set from a place that was already polished but after really looking at the quality of work i thought i could do better so lessened learned did my own the only thinh not polished are the valve covers they are chrome
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Re: just finished engine bay for world of wheels

That looks awesome. Good job keeping it clean. Those new bottles will make a big difference. What about your exhaust manifolds? They are a pain in the butt to remove and clean up, but that would help too I think.
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i agree on the exhaust would really like some headers but that is a little out of me league and the prices i got would be over a 1000 dollars (including headers) may be over the summer i will meet some people at a show that willl be willing to help you never know
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Holy cow! That's the level of cleanliness I'm shooting for in my engine compartment. Kudos man, surely you are out of elbow grease!
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thanks once you get clean it is just a matter of up keep also don't drive the car in any kind of bad weather
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thats bad *** bro! hook a brutha up on my 88 vert while it's up in hainesville getting the paint chips touched up lol. i just moved from up there in lake villa
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were are you getting the chips fixed and thanks always willing to help
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87' and up are bigger bottles.
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looks great alot of work in there
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looks good! like steve said hide some wires.

maybe try painting the manifolds to to a dark gray maybe but its your choice but just thought i would throw that out there.
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I agree would really like to hide the manifolds but not to sure on painting them while still on and if i take them off i should just put headers back on will see show is march maybe after that. just don't want to spen an arm and leg to have headers put on not sure if i want to attempt on my own thanks
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Did you polish that on the motor or did you take it off?
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Order the coolant overflow tank from Hawks. They reproduced the larger 89 and up tank.
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thanks will look at hawks, I took everything off was not really that bad the hardest part was getting the passenger side valve cover off because of all the stuff in the way learned my lesson. second time around should be even easier now knowing what needs to come off the make room
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fineline In hainesville off 120 & 134
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ok thanks i live right over there alway looking for a good shop just for that reason
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