Cleaning the engine bay

[jdmjim]

ive been working on mine, i have a lot of surface rust and i used spoked wheel acid on in and it did a tremendous job on it , ill post pics when shes done.

 

[amaestre32]

yeah a buddy of mine told me to cover the dizzy..cover the intake..and keep the engine running?

 

[Sammich]

if anything u will get moisture that u can just wipe out of the dizzy cap, but i havent had to do that since my dizzy cap had a crack in it on my truck...so if everything is sealed, u have absolutely nothing to worry about

 

[amaestre32]

my buddy told me that you can power wash it but you should cover the dizzy and the intake..he said to also keeep the engine running ? is this right?

 

[Sammich]

intake...MAYBE..even wheni had the intake on the integra...and intake on the max, i never focus water on that area...sprayed around it lightly, but not full force with it on the intake. like i said, never had problems. i have personally never power washed/pressure washed my engine bay, always a garden hose w/ a end on it.

and yes, keep the engine running. i just follow what the guys do at the ford and chevy dealerships, and ive had no problems what so ever

 

[amaestre32]

lol alright thats what i was gonna do..everyone says different things and theres not really an answer everyone agrees on.

 

[Ominous G2]

I would still say cover the plugs on the valve cover, I hosed mine down before and had water get in. Getting water out is a pain in the ass.

 

[amaestre32]

alright i'll make sure to get everthing covered that should and ill keep the engine running, thanks guys

 

[dc2b18]

there's a pretty good write up on team integra about this exact project also.

 

[amaestre32]

yeah i saw it, its pretty much the same thing..

 

[patti2103a]

thanks for the feedback guys

 

[GroceryGettinDB7]

no problem! post some pics when your done!!

 

[patti2103a]

updated

 

[unvmy98ls]

That looks really good compaired to before.