My car looks great but pop open the hood and doesn't look so good. Whats a good way to clean my engine so it looks like new maybe steam clean? also where can I get an original air cleaner cover for 88 SC ?

 

fist of all what kind of engine do you have carb tbi tpi it would help a lot. have you tried to wash down your engine and scrubbing it a little or if there is a lot of oil and grease every were you might want to try engine degresser, if still not satisfied try getting new valve covers or some other kind of dress up kit for your engine

 

engine degreaser, then go and ask someone at Advance Auto Parts for their Engine shine, spray that on when you are done spraying the engine degreaser off the engine with the power sprayer, and while the engine is still wet, soak everthing you see with the engine polish, it works great, it even made my S10s engine look new. it was awesome. and the stuff is like 3.99 a bottle not bad for the results!

have fun and cover your electrical stuff!

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Jarrad
1990 IROC-Z L98 350 TPI
TH-700R4
G92- 9 Bolt Borg-Warner 3.27gears
Bright Red Hardtop/ Grey "Custom" Interior
NOT STOCK, NO WHERE CLOSE!
NEW RED PAINT and WELD PROSTARS.

DAILY DRIVER: 1991 GREY S10 2.5L/5SPD -FOR SALE. leaving for army.

 

I CLEAN ALL OF MY CARS ENGINES EVERY APRIL AND EVERY OCTOBER. SEVERAL ENGINE CLEANERS WILL WORK AND THEN ENGINE BRITE/SHINE AS A FOLLOW UP. MY 2000 BLAZER STILL LOOK THE WAY I DROVE IT FROM THE SHOWROOM USING THIS METHOD. THIS WINTER I WILL BE PULLING ENGINE AND TRANS FROM MY '86 AND PAINTING, CLEANING AND CROME THE ENTIRE MOTOR AND BAY. WILL COST ABOUT $2000.00 BUT CAR WILL LOOK NEW THEN. PICTURES WILL FOLLOW. FOR NOW SPRAY YOUR AIR CLEANER WILL SPRAY PAINT FOR THAT NEW LOOK.

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86 Camaro Black SS Coupe, T Tops, Flowmaster, Custom Paint, Dunlop Road Kings S/R tires, Wheel Country Directional Chrome Wheels, New Leather seats, new carpet and headliner, complete front end suspension rebuild, new Valve seals, and more mods to come
http://www.angelfire.com/sports/niterider/86camaro.html

 

sorry. its a 305 V8 TBI

 

yea, exactly how should you go about doing this, obviously you dont wanna hit the stuff on the firewall in the rear, but what exactly do you do?

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91 FireBird 305 V-8
no true mods,
ghetto rigged cold air intake,
"My G/f Once Wanted To Break Up Because Of Competition With The Car."
GheTTo Riggers INC.
We Make Mcgyver look Like Crap

 

I toyed around with cleaning my engine bay by hosing it down but then I got thinking, tell me if I am wrong here. If your 3rd Gen has never had a "cleaning" under the hood and you have driven it in the elements there HAS to be rust some where. By washing it down, wouldnt it just help the rust out and make more of it? I know I was told that if I wanted to put a under coat on my car to protect it from the salt and rain of Rochester NY (where I go to school) I should lift the car up and sand down all the rust and then primer over it becuase if I just get it sprayed the rust will keep growing under it. So basically I would take a wet rag and a bucket of water and get in there and do it the hard way. That way there aint a puddle of water sitting some where or getting deep in a crack....but hey....just my two cents ( Clink....clink....)


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89 Rs Camaro 305 TBI
Custom Performance Chip
Open Air Element
80 Series FlowMaster Muffler 2.5 inch Cat Back
BFG 235/60r15 Apperance: Black gray pinstripe. Black interior with Gray center piece in seat. Blue Gauge lights and 2 Blue neons under dash Board.
90 Iroc Checkerd Tail lights
Iroc Foglights
System: Pioneer 5200 Head unit Polk 3 ways up front and in the back. Kenwood 300 watt amp pumpin a 8inch JBL GT


"So many engines, so little time"

www.rit.edu/~cjp8408

 

Get some engine degreaser and use it. That's basically it. Replace old hoses and wire harness covers.

For about 125 you can spiffy up the engine with some chrome valve covers and open element like I did. It was easy and a vast improvement.

Before:
<img src = "http://www.evilface.com/camaro/engine/engine.jpg">

After:
<img src = "http://www.evilface.com/camaro/engine/engine1.jpg">
<img src = "http://www.evilface.com/camaro/engine/engine2.jpg">


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EVILFACE

88 Camaro
Stock 305 TBI Auto, Flowmaster, Full 3" Exhaust, B&M Megashifter, K&N Open Element
Runs A Blistering 16.5 @ 81.5 mph (due to major tire spin)

http://www.evilface.com/evilscamaro.htm