You guys and your engine bays....
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You guys and your engine bays....
Made me go home and clean mine up. Wife wanted me to do some
honey do's, but I felt guilty, because all of the guys on Thirdgen.org's
engine bays look great. Not wanting to be the odd man out, I took
a scrub brush, toothbrush, simple green, bleach white, and 3 hours
of elbow grease to come up with this.
BEFORE
AFTER
~castrol
honey do's, but I felt guilty, because all of the guys on Thirdgen.org's
engine bays look great. Not wanting to be the odd man out, I took
a scrub brush, toothbrush, simple green, bleach white, and 3 hours
of elbow grease to come up with this.
BEFORE
AFTER
~castrol
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You want to come over to my place and do that to my car? I need it bad. 
You did a great job. I need to get some time and do that too, but I have a lot of honey do's as well.
Keep up the great work! I am looking forward to seeing your progress.
Bill
You did a great job. I need to get some time and do that too, but I have a lot of honey do's as well.
Keep up the great work! I am looking forward to seeing your progress.
Bill
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Re: You guys and your engine bays....
Originally posted by castrolSi
Made me go home and clean mine up. Wife wanted me to do some
honey do's, but I felt guilty, because all of the guys on Thirdgen.org's
engine bays look great. Not wanting to be the odd man out, I took
a scrub brush, toothbrush, simple green, bleach white, and 3 hours
of elbow grease to come up with this.
~castrol
Made me go home and clean mine up. Wife wanted me to do some
honey do's, but I felt guilty, because all of the guys on Thirdgen.org's
engine bays look great. Not wanting to be the odd man out, I took
a scrub brush, toothbrush, simple green, bleach white, and 3 hours
of elbow grease to come up with this.
~castrol
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Car: 89 Pontiac GTA Trans Am
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mine was pretty dirty and i just took it to the car wash and used their enginge degreaser to clean it came out great for only 75 cents and about 10-15 mins.
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Looks good, you know you can get a new coolant bottle for about $10 from GM, also BLUE heater hose? Just nitpicking looks REALLY GOOD!
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wow. that looks great. its amazing what a little elbow grease and some time will do. hope you keep it looking like that.
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Wow, what a difference! I'm also glad I don't have all them wires and hoses to keep clean.
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i wish i didnt have all the wires and hoses to deal with either, their all gonna dissapear when i get the money for a crate, just rebuilt a 350 and dropped it in shoulda saved a little longer. sorry my camera sucks
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Cool Sitting Bull... I had a dream about doing the dual intake last
night. I didn't know if it had been done, or was doable, or if it was
ever an option... I got up this morning trying to figure out how to
make that work. HEHE.
I am trying sooooo hard to keep this car factory. Its gonna be
tougher than I thought.
~castrol
night. I didn't know if it had been done, or was doable, or if it was
ever an option... I got up this morning trying to figure out how to
make that work. HEHE.
I am trying sooooo hard to keep this car factory. Its gonna be
tougher than I thought.
~castrol
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Originally posted by castrolSi
Cool Sitting Bull... I had a dream about doing the dual intake last
night. I didn't know if it had been done, or was doable, or if it was
ever an option... I got up this morning trying to figure out how to
make that work. HEHE.
I am trying sooooo hard to keep this car factory. Its gonna be
tougher than I thought.
~castrol
Cool Sitting Bull... I had a dream about doing the dual intake last
night. I didn't know if it had been done, or was doable, or if it was
ever an option... I got up this morning trying to figure out how to
make that work. HEHE.
I am trying sooooo hard to keep this car factory. Its gonna be
tougher than I thought.
~castrol
It will work fine on a Firebird. It was a factory option on 305 HO engines in both thirdgen Camaros and Firebirds. It also works fine on TBI cars.
It knocks a full quarter second off a 16 second thirdgen
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The dual snorkel is very doable. A little trickier on a '92 but it worked out. Check out mine.
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well i figured i'd get in on this too. Didn't want my engine to feel left out 
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I cleaned mine up a bit,
before,
After a thorough cleaning,
And then I decided I really wanted a clean engine bay,
before,
After a thorough cleaning,
And then I decided I really wanted a clean engine bay,
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Heres some updated pis of my sheet metal project. Its coming along so fare. I tried painting it yesterday but the paint reacted in some spots. Im doing a 3 stage pearl like my car. Today was back to prep work and its ready for paint tomorrow.
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