Whos got the cleanest engine bay??? (Picture Thread)

[one ton garage]

Cleaning up some files and found some old pics of another friend's engine bay... this was a black kouki that belonged to same friend that later had the silver S14 I posted pics of above. Being a kouki car/motor, there was a lot of solenoids, wiring to hide from the intake manifold side. I powdercoated/anodized most of the ancillary items to go for that clean all-black look (which was carried through to the extreme on the silver car later). It's just kinda a shame that my friend swapped on the blue plug wires, and clear, nylon-reinforced breather hoses as seen in these pics...

And on the subject of v-mounts... they are not good because the positioning of the radiator in formal v-mounts channel air under the car... which is one of the last things you'd want to be doing. In a real performance application, that air will want to lift the car, and upset its handling. Prob a pretty moot issue on a mostly street driven car though. I built a full ducted setup on a friend's S13 for ****s and giggles before... the duct work channels all the air in, through the heat exchangers, and up and out the top of the hood. Oh yeah, and the car's got a/c, so there's a condenser there, too... unfortunately I could only find the under construction pics, not any of the engine bay together...

cardboard mockup of ducts and side covers:

sheetmetal ducts (in, and out)

I kinda miss this car...

[kornaz]

Damn one ton garage. That's awesome!!

[artforce_s13]

CLEAN!

[White Comet]

^ gay

[crapanese]

^ gay

haha

[sommmatt]

Plastic engine bays FTMFL.

[dwada]

probally not the cleanest but here's mine

[Slappy]

I vote this guy...

zerothread/316458

[E34erick]

how long do u guys take to clean the engine bay o.o?Takes me forever with a few rags and degreasers.

[s14tan]

I Guess I'll contribute and break up the EssaR fest..

[slik_s13]

^i vote that guy too^ that s14 is super clean!heres mine. its clean. probaly not the cleanest, but cleaner than others. the IC piping is actually flat black now to match the rest of the engine bay. i dont have any pics of that yet though.

[white90esex]

S14tan, not tryin to rain on your parade but....

There is dirt and **** everywere in your engine bay. .

[confedup]

That hitman dudes 'vert seems to have a pretty clean engine bay....

[samozary]

woop woop!

[1oldpiggy]

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[Touge_Drifter]

Here's my Tomei 2.2 s14 sr20det

[idahotuner]

From this:To this

[Loki]

Just got some leaves here and there

[_spetznaz]

[S14pilot]

my daily driver

and my '67 Camaro

[Xdisaster240sX]

[lrb_2000]

here's mine at the moment. BeforeAfter

[nelson8708]

woop woop!

You need to change the valve cover vent to the intake before the turbo but, after the mafs.

[aceof07]

this is my engine bay, i know its not the cleanest but its the best i've seen in person if that counts.

[Matej]

Is that not finished, or do you drive without an overflow tank?

[adrianfromthecastle]

Is that not finished, or do you drive without an overflow tank?

overflow tanks are over rated.

[Broadfield]

My old engine bay setup that everyone thought was one of the cleanest back when this thread was created.... looks pretty crappy now that I look back at it:



Last year about this time I finished up on the new setup..... looks a thousand times better in my opinion! I thought it would be cool to have a side-by-side comparison.

[ZX88]

[aceof07]

yes! i just revived my first zombie thread!

[GooeyStuff]

Looks great!By the way, what do you use to keep your engine bay looking like that? Is it okay to get the turbo wet?