fiyota
10-15-2007, 02:06 AM
Well, today I had my valve covers off to check my valve clearences (trying to figure out some valvetrain noise...)
Anywho, I also decided today would be a good day to start cleaning up my engine bay. Earlier in the summer I swapped a gte into my 88 n/a supra. I started cleaning up the gte (had 4000 kilometers on it), but I never really got a chance to do some serious cleanup to my engine bay or the engine like I had hoped, since my N/A was on it's way out and the timing was right to put in the gte, I decided to go ahead with the swap.
Well, a few months later, several sets of tires, and a lot of fun, I'm going to do a full engine bay overhaul, and hopefully figure out my tap/knock before I store her for the winter... Here is where it was right after the swap.
http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/22283/2005611895959896791_rs.jpg
Pretty messy... How it sits right now:
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/fiyota/88%20Supra/october%2014%202007/cleanup2.jpg
Not Much better.... But atleast the inside of the engine is clean!
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/fiyota/88%20Supra/october%2014%202007/valvenoise.jpg
You may not have noticed from the first picture, but I painted my valve covers again... This time a graphite metallic with black stripes... looks much better than straight black!
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/fiyota/88%20Supra/october%2014%202007/cleanup1.jpg
Compared to before:
http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/19486/2005710061207763620_fs.jpg
Tomorrow I will be stripping everything off in order to clean/paint almost everything... I'm going to cover up the engine and clean the paint in the engine bay as best I can and wax it, and hopefully clean up a bunch of the vaccum lines, hoses and wiring!
Anywho, I also decided today would be a good day to start cleaning up my engine bay. Earlier in the summer I swapped a gte into my 88 n/a supra. I started cleaning up the gte (had 4000 kilometers on it), but I never really got a chance to do some serious cleanup to my engine bay or the engine like I had hoped, since my N/A was on it's way out and the timing was right to put in the gte, I decided to go ahead with the swap.
Well, a few months later, several sets of tires, and a lot of fun, I'm going to do a full engine bay overhaul, and hopefully figure out my tap/knock before I store her for the winter... Here is where it was right after the swap.
http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/22283/2005611895959896791_rs.jpg
Pretty messy... How it sits right now:
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/fiyota/88%20Supra/october%2014%202007/cleanup2.jpg
Not Much better.... But atleast the inside of the engine is clean!
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/fiyota/88%20Supra/october%2014%202007/valvenoise.jpg
You may not have noticed from the first picture, but I painted my valve covers again... This time a graphite metallic with black stripes... looks much better than straight black!
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/fiyota/88%20Supra/october%2014%202007/cleanup1.jpg
Compared to before:
http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/19486/2005710061207763620_fs.jpg
Tomorrow I will be stripping everything off in order to clean/paint almost everything... I'm going to cover up the engine and clean the paint in the engine bay as best I can and wax it, and hopefully clean up a bunch of the vaccum lines, hoses and wiring!