Let's See Those Engine Bays!

[z28luvr01]

I'll go first:

[avant1963]

[Flybrian]

Note the swanky structureless blades on the Pontiac.

[Nick]

[Camino LS6]

The Maserati:

[Camino LS6]

The Jag:

[Camino LS6]

Hawk:

[Olds Guy]

[Sixty8panther]

WOW! Great concept for a thread.

Love that Sudebaker V8 Walt.

So first off the Volvo's crap-tastic 2.4 liter Four banger.

Everytime I open the long hood on my compact little

Datsun and see the inline six sitting pretty lengthwise

between the Firewall and radiator it puts a huge smile

on my face.

5.7 liters of ZZZ350 crate motor direct from GM.

Translation: 377 horsepower at 7000rpm.

I'm selling my muscle car to get a luxury car but in

terms of gross horsepower I will not be giving up

much. Check out that air cleaner... that's a 345

horsepower 394 sitting between the fenders.

Yup... this is what a 24,000 original mile 1964

Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday looks like.

[MGZ06]

Here is the beast after being detailed for 3 hours. . . .

[NOS2006]

I'm going to have to detail my engine bay this week sometime once it's a little cooler out.. It's all painted, the engine, but everything else is dirty.

[loki]

Hawk:

none of your pics show a picture, it's a text equilavent for some reason for me.(firefox)

[Camino LS6]

none of your pics show a picture, it's a text equilavent for some reason for me.(firefox)

You should be seeing thumbnails, try clicking on what you see and maybe you'll get the pics.

[corvette_dude729]

none of your pics show a picture, it's a text equilavent for some reason for me.(firefox)

same with me, i think its broken

[mightymouse]

more go than show- rusty headers are faster than shiney

[Sixty8panther]

Thumbnails working okay for me, perhaps it's a firefox thing.

[corvette_dude729]

Thumbnails working okay for me, perhaps it's a firefox thing.

I just tried it in IE and it works fine, but in firefox it's just a bunch of text.

[NOS2006]

Yeah, same for me.. must be a Firefox thing. Blah.

It's fine.. I didn't wanna see the pics anyway! lol

[Camino LS6]

Yeah, same for me.. must be a Firefox thing. Blah.

It's fine.. I didn't wanna see the pics anyway! lol

Aw c'mon, NOS.

[Olds Guy]

  Here is the beast after being detailed for 3 hours. . . .

Nice red box! :AH-HA_wink:

[NOS2006]

Aw c'mon, NOS.

Naw, I did, but can't.

[Northstar]

Here's mine:

[76ChevyTrucker]

Here's mine!

350cid, bored .040 over, 272/282 Melling Street Performance cam, Dynomax headers, Holley aluminum Street Dominator Intake, 670cfm Holley 4-bbl vacuum secondary carb, Accel 48,000-volt supercoil, port and polish job on the heads....all in all, 385 horses to the rear wheels, 415 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels.

[Delta Force79]

1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88, Rocket 350, 4 BBl...123,000 original miles

[avro206]

2.4 VVT

[Cory Wolfe]

Nice intake, Avro..

Anyways, damn... some of you guys need to remember than anything bigger than 600 pixels wide is pushing it for pictures. My PC can only take so much abuse and I can only take so much side scrolling.

The Millenia's 2.5L V6:

w00t!

[Sixty8panther]

I hate you Northstar!

Damn, I want a Holden GTO.

[capriceman]

the old trucks engine (i miss it)

(borrowed link^)

My Caprices enigne(i need to get a new pic but theres the 305 pushing 185 HP and 250 ft. lbs of torque.

the new trucks engine Repalcement vechicle for now.

(borrowed link^) I wish it was that clean. for $700 how could i go wrong. It blows a quart of oil every 200 miles. and if you slam the door rust chunks fall out.

Edited June 14, 2006 by capriceman

[balthazar]

O... M... G! I can actually see parts & portions of the motor that do.... motoring stuff!

I was beginning to think that rubber hoses and plastic shields were capable of internal combustion in & of themselves!

[Northstar]

I hate you Northstar!

Damn, I want a Holden GTO.

Hey now, don't be hatin'

If you want to come all the way to IL to drive her, be my guest

[Mach5GTP]

242,000 miles worth of GM redheaded step-engine, the 3.4L DOHC LQ1:

[avro206]

242,000 miles worth of GM redheaded step-engine, the 3.4L DOHC LQ1:

wow--how is that still running? They have a bad rep for reliability....good power for the day though

[speedy_2]

The day I bought it, Jan. 2004, with 72,000 miles on it.

At 125,000 miles 2 1/2 years later.

[zhawk]

Some nice engines in there. Let's see if mine will load up.

The Z/Hawk - 95 Z/28

71 Camaro Z/28

71 Buick Skylark Convertible - The original Buick 350

[zhawk]

OK, now for the 67 pickup...

The current inline 6

The engine to be rebuilt for the truck - a 67 327

[zhawk]

One last post...

Tammy's 87 IROC in original form.

With the Holley Stealth Ram Intake

Working on the rebuild. Its now a 355 and should be finished being assembled by the end of August.

Hmmm, time and money, I don't have enough of either.

Edited July 25, 2006 by zhawk

[z28luvr01]

[zhawk]

Z- That Vette engine bay will look so nice with the 427 back in it.

[chevelle454]

THE 454

[fuel_sipping]

My Inline 6 with custom valve covers and oil bath aluminum intake...

:AH-HA_wink:

Yea its a Toyota.

[Farkas]

An SFI Vulcan 3.0

With a massive 145 horsepower.

[GMTruckGuy74]

ANy tips on how to clean a modern engine? I used to clean the 3.1 V6 in my '92 Cavalier Z24 all the time with no problems. Then I bougth a '95 Pontiac T/A back in April of '98 and washed the engine once - it wouldn't start for over an hour afterwards (I guess it had to dry out). So I've stopped doing this task when cleaning my cars but miss the beauty of a clean engine bay (I spent about a day & a half cleaning the 'bu recently - but the engine is still horrendous). I'd like to clean-up both the Malibu's 3500 V6 and the Envoy's 4200 I6. Any suggestions and/or recommendations???

[z28luvr01]

Steam cleaning would probably be the best approach if there's accumulated dirt. Also, after every wash, I usually wipe down what I can in the engine bay with the dirty towel just before I throw it in the wash.

[ToniCipriani]

Too lazy to take a new one...

Here's the one from the last photoshoot:

Stock LX9 3500. Oh, I removed the resonator recently, but it's not visible in this pic.

For a thread like this, you should quote Rick James:

Bitches, come over here and show Charlie Murphy titties!

Edited August 2, 2006 by ToniCipriani

[GMTruckGuy74]

Steam cleaning would probably be the best approach if there's accumulated dirt. Also, after every wash, I usually wipe down what I can in the engine bay with the dirty towel just before I throw it in the wash.

174834[/snapback]

Well, I've owned the car for 33 months now and it has never been cleaned, so I will say YES, there's a lot of accumulated dirt

Where do I go to have the engine steam cleaned? Anything I should be aware of when getting this done? For example, is there any components on the LX9 3500 V6 engine that need to be protected/covered before getting cleaned?

[fuel_sipping]

Why dont you just get some Simple Green and some elbow grease?

[GMTruckGuy74]

Why dont you just get some Simple Green and some elbow grease?

175069[/snapback]

That's what I used when I cleaned my '92 Cav Z24 with the 3.1 V6 and never had a problem. The one time I cleaned my '95 T/A with the LT1 V8 the darn car wouldn't start for over an hour. I was also advised by some car guys that newer car engines were more delicate and you have to be careful when spraying under the hood. I'd prefer to do it myself - anything I should know about the LX9 V6 before I go spraying under the hood???

[XP715]

Not the cleanest engine bay I own, but definitely the biggest, and certainly the one I'm currently most proud of. Just put her all back together last week!

[NOS2006]

haha So I lifted my dad's GP's hood the other day and saw this huge, highly restrictive box around the air filter. I laughed for a few minutes..