Who has the cleanest ka engine bay? Post Pics!!

Post by **rsmithdrift** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:43 pm

ddgsxr504.............I have to ask. How hard was it to paint your valve cover black like that?? I would love to do that to mine. You guys with painted valve covers make me so jealous. F'ing georgeous.

Post by **DJButton** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:41 pm

Well here's mine, nothing pretty but oddly clean for an '89, 75K though! Annnd yes, that is a horrible picture taken with my razr in case you're wondering. I need a digital!

Post by **AZhitman** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:14 pm

Here's mine (at present):

Post by **Tulsa_S-13** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:42 pm

Hey AZHitman, I'm rockin' the Xcessive Intake manifold on the KA-T I'm rebuilding now and was wondering if you had any problems with it clearing the hood. I hate having to cut the supports on the hood just for the fact that they are designed to react a certain way during a front impact accident.

Looking good

Post by **AZhitman** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:44 pm

Yep - They SWEAR it clears the hood on their car, and that it was designed fine, but that's hogwash.

I went through tearing up a pristine hood so that you don't have to.

My solution? Made my own motor mounts, lowered the whole engine. See my article on 240sxTech.com.

Love the manifold, hate the fitment.

Post by **hkssupratt1994** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:48 pm

how do you pic pictures on here?

Post by **thomasjamal** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:21 am

easiest way is to use photobucket.com or something like it.

You can upload pics there and then copy the image tag and just past it here...

Post by **Ajax** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:40 am

AZhitman wrote:Yep - They SWEAR it clears the hood on their car, and that it was designed fine, but that's hogwash.

I went through tearing up a pristine hood so that you don't have to.

My solution? Made my own motor mounts, lowered the whole engine. See my article on 240sxTech.com.

Love the manifold, hate the fitment.

Xcessive says it clears the hood on the s14. Did they modify their website statement after learning of your s13 hood clearance issue? Did you chrome your intake or just shine it up? And is that chrome with black lettering on your valve cover? That looks amazing!I'm still dealing with a few issues on my car, but I'll have my pics up here soon (and hopefully a dyno will follow shortly!).

Post by **240sxvaj** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:54 am

PandaS14 wrote:my best effort...

how much did this cost you? (refereing to the engine)

Post by **AZhitman** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:59 pm

Ajax wrote:
Xcessive says it clears the hood on the s14. Did they modify their website statement after learning of your s13 hood clearance issue? Did you chrome your intake or just shine it up? And is that chrome with black lettering on your valve cover? That looks amazing!I'm still dealing with a few issues on my car, but I'll have my pics up here soon (and hopefully a dyno will follow shortly!).

Not sure what they did on their site...

Intake is polished (took me over 16 hours), valve cover is polished as well - Thanks!

Post by **D*star** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:55 pm

Post by **240DRFT** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:58 pm

not really that clean; cleaner than it was...and motha****ing GOLD!

Website · Post by **crash n burn** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:48 pm

when i first got it it had been sitting for like 3 months..soo i cleaned it up a little

i f'ing hate..HATE that green..my calipers are the same flipin color..oh wel i just got another one to build my ka-t..sooooooo im thinking polished?

Post by **zerepdivad** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:30 pm

Here's what mine looked like before my ka started knocking and was pulled.

Post by **240sxvaj** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:04 pm

240DRFT wrote:not really that clean; cleaner than it was...and motha****ing GOLD!

doesn't your fan hit your intake?

Website · Post by **crash n burn** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:58 pm

hey..i was gonna ask if it overheated much

//shrugs//

Post by **matt4pl** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:30 pm

some of these engien bays are looking pretty sweet. might as well post up mine. its not clean enough for me but i'll save that for a rebuild or a diff project

and if you are wondering about where the fuse box went, well:

Post by **SPIRONIUM** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:38 pm

nelson8708 wrote:this is a clean engine bay....................... because there is no engine bay.A friends car

do you have any more pics/info for this car? caught my curiousity as i am undertaking a similar project

Post by **S13DrIfTmEkAnIcS** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:36 pm

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first swap, even tho i did end up blowing it up.....it was purdy while it lasted here is a pic of what i did.

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Post by **SPIRONIUM** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:09 pm

240DRFT wrote:not really that clean; cleaner than it was...and motha****ing GOLD!

for real, fan shroud is crucial, i dont want your **** to overheat that would suck. It can only take one time and thats it for the engine. Just lookin out fo a brotha ya heard?

Post by **turbo_dreams** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:12 pm

j-z wrote:

you have mail !

Post by **Driftless240** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:51 pm

More to come, soon.

Post by **elo240** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:12 pm

Thought I'd Post a couple of pics of mine.

Its taken a lot of work to get it to this stage.

Post by **2s4k0y09** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:33 am

Here is my engine bay, still not as clean as I want it, but I daily drove her for 5 years in chicago weather (well mainly winter that f*ucked a bunch of s*it up), but now she sits pretty in the garage awaiting the warm spring weather for some more work. Sorry the pics aren't that close up, but good enough.

Post by **aceof07** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:28 am

my engine bay.

Post by **480sx** » Fri May 22, 2009 5:44 pm

Post by **chrismo240sx** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:47 am

Heres my contribution...

Post by **Marktheace** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:19 pm

Does anyone have a wiretucked engine bay?

Post by **singleslammer251** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:42 pm

Post by **SINsanity702** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:07 pm

'91 240sx LE Hatchback-click for link to larger image, then click larger image for more picsbefore

after(i suk at engine bay cleaning, any tips?)

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