I hate having to drive on gravel roads. I try not to, but my best friend lives on one, so im pretty much screwed. My engine bay was clean (dustfree, but greasy as all hell) when I dropped the new engine in. Now look at it.

BTW, I plan on changing all of the pullies, the alternator and PS pump brackets, and everything else that looks crappy, including the wiring. I'm pulling the engine next month when I paint my car and im going to clean the engine bay, do the wiring, POR15 the engine bay, and clean the engine bigtime.. The pullies and some new vavle covers are for this summer...

 

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UGH! Dust Everywhere!

 

Mine looks the same. But I always have a leaf collection problem.

 

I've got a mile-long dirt road..it blows!
Try doing an engine swap in the dirt!

 

lol... you should turn your a/c on ... circulate the dust through the cabin... make a real good mess.

 

I get really annoyed by dirt roads too. They are everywhere around here and I live on one (welcome to Montana!). After I wash the Camaro (or S10 Blazer for that matter), I have to drive 5 MPH down the dirt road until I get to the paved road. If I don't, I end up with a bunch of dust all over the back end. The dust especially likes to collect on the top of the rear bumper. When I get home from work, if I don't rinse the car off, it is dirty the next day (especially if any dew collects over night).

On top of that, cars fly down the road at 30-35 MPH all day long, so if the car sits for a day or two, it is covered in dust. That becomes a big problem during the summer when it is dry. It reaches a point where I have to rinse the cars off every night and wash them every week or two. I need a garage!

Not that I would want to live anywhere else, mind you. I grew up here and plan to stay. I could just do without all the dust from the roads.

 

hehe, I just started ripping the AC junk out. Im gonna put an AC delete from an Ile in there withing a couple of weeks.. The car isnt on the road as of right now and when it will be, i wont take it on any gravel until i get that delete... I don't live on any gravel myself, just my best friend.. otherwise i dont have to deal with it. I plan on getting a car for work and such.. and thats the vehicle im gonna take to his place...

 

man yours is clean compared to mine.....

 

I drive my camaro on gravel roads too, and it sucks. How do you guts prevent rock chips? I've got the ground effects, but even those dont stop all of the rocks from hitting the bottoms of the doors and chipping the paint. I have some gm mud guards to put on, but I'm not sure I want to put them on.

 

I guess I have a diff out look on it.

Here's how mine looks most of the times.. (see all the pine straw, dust, and dirt, un polished chrome and alum.) It stil looks great to me, and to most people that sees it.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...89807040nZhXFa

I live in the country of GA. just 15 miles east of the east of the AL. state line.

About half the roads are dirt/gravel, The road I live on is gravel, that never gets scrapped so it's got holes all in it and rough,. 1/4 of the paved roads are "country" pavement. Some of yall might know what i'm talking about.. Made up of alot of little rocks, holes gets in it, rocks come up, the other 1/4 is nice black top.
My yard is full of sandy dirt, red mud (GA. red clay), and pine trees.

Car gets covered in pine sap, road dust, and pine straw.
I built my whole car out side in the dirt and dust, engine was built in my living room. ..

I look at it like this.... I spend money, and time on my cars to have fun and enjoy it. Driving it all the time is fun.. . Rock chips and dust is badges too me. It show I dont just let mine sit or trailer it around.

At times I wish I didn't live where dirt roads was every where, then other times I think about how learning to drive on loose gravel roads has saved my butt a few times.. Yall know how easy it is to spin out on gravel, rear end meets front end.. Well learning on roads like that, taught my car controll at a young age, so now when I get into "trouble" I know I have the skill to drive through it and out of it.

Mines a true daily driver that I spent 2 years working on.. I don't care about all my polished alum under the hood getting dirty, or dusty.. Thats what daily drives go through..

Before I go to a get together or show, I open the hood and blow all the dust and pine straw off/out with compressed air, go to local car wash, $1 to high pressure wash car body and wheels/tires, $1 to wash engine and engine bay

 

I live 4 miles down a rock road and hate going home!

 

Dirt roads are rare around here. I miss being country folk tho.

 

Dirt roads blow! I live in Miami so you would think it's no problem, but practically every other street is under construction! Everywhere you go there's a bulldozer stirring up dust...

 

try to pull an engine in the mud

 

I pulled my V6 T5 out of a firebird laying in mud in a junkyard while it was still sprinkling. THAT was fun.

 

Z28 DUDE....
I know what you mean... Look at this lol.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...25464322KsXYyS

I built my whole car in the dirt/sand/mud/straw.
I use an old truck hood, and some sheets of plywood or MDF so the cherry picker will somewhat roll.

But lernt that's still hard to do.. Best way is just to leave the cherry picker in one place with engine on it, then push car foward by hand. Stop pushing, let engine down some, push car foward alittle more, stop, let engine down some, etc etc

 

ouch.. I am very thankful i live with mostly paved roads.. Only crap that is not paved is the boonies crap.. where my friends all seem to live.. fu*kers

 

Here in Arkansas, we have tons of gravel and dirt roads.
Back when my car was still new, I was supposed to pick up this hot chick for a date, but when I got to her road, I saw that it was gravel and I didn't pick her up. Not wanting to waste a bath, I went back to town and took my cousin out to eat , and now we are married!
Now, every once in a while, I tell my wife how lucky she is that Uncle Jim Bob (my father-in-law) didn't put their trailer on a gravel road.

 

and if ur serious, thats the final straw; we are nuking Arkansas

 

If you live any place thats small in population or rural, no getting around dirt or rock roads. I don't mind dirt roads too much, its the gravel roads that fly rocks up along the body that concern me the most. I only really hate the dirt roads when it rains, then it really sucks, with some of the inclines in Southern Illinois you practically need a 4 X 4 to even drive anywhere not near main road.

 

Sorry for the long quote, but 90% of that is my story. I live about 15 to 20 miles from the SC line, near a lake known as Strom Thurmond/ Clarks Hill lake. Some may know the area. I have a gravel drive and often times go over 20-25 mph(its a short drive way) so that does kick up the dirt and rocks.

My camaro is a daily driver, it has 3 different shade of white which is the worst thing about it. Most times my car looks like something Vanishing point or the Bluesbrothers, Mud caked, dust. So 50% is white and the rest of the time is brown.

I currently own a "trailer car" just got it back from the paint shop and I can of hate that I have to be so careful around it, the camaro on the other I feel much easier working on.

And after all the two most common Ga colors are Georgia Red Clay, and Pollen Yellow.

 

you forgot to add the word "our" after the word "that"

 

bwhahahahaha..