Thanks to ChiTownHemi!!!!!!

Was at the Johnsburg car show recently, and ChiTownHemi was there as well with his new strut tower brace (which looks KICK ASS) and mentioned to me that I needed some strut tower covers. I was like "Yeah, I know, just haven't ordered them yet". Well, he walks over to his car, and comes back with his old ones, since he couldn't use them with his new brace, he gave me his strut covers!!!! KICK ASS!!! So needless to say, I slapped em on right away!!! Thanks again man, that was VERY nice of ya man!!! Here are the pics!!!!

Looks much better w/ those on...

Does look good. Those should be standard.

That was awesome of him. I had a member of my club give me his old ones and I had them painted. Who knew that buying a car would also bring such nice people to help you out and become friends with!

Glad you like them Adam and are gettin' good use out of them. Like I said, I'd much rather someone on CAMM gets them than to sell them to some stranger.

And yeah, I don't understand why those damn things aren't standard equip...

Your engine bay looks awesome.

thats why this site is awsome, people here are real and are willing to help anyone

jesse031081 wrote:

thats why this site is awsome, people here are real and are willing to help anyone

x2 hell yea you guys ROCK

They look GREAT Adam.

ChiTownHemi - very nice!!

oh man... haha what's the trick to making your engine bay so clean like that.....

Mucho elbow grease!!! LOL

its all in a days work

jesse031081 wrote:

its all in a days work

HEE HEE Yeah, you're right............ all in a days WORK........ at WORK!!! LMAO HA HA HA HA

my roommate mentioned something to be using Simple Green spray..... just spray it on a warm engine (not hot, but not cold) let it sit with the hood closed for about 10 min... then just rinse with a hose... i dont know about doing that though.. haha.... I have to ask... with the CAI, did you have to change out your mass air flow sensor? or was it just a tweak in the computer?? not gonna lie, im trying to find mucho one ups about my car over my roommates mustang... hahah

firestartr420 wrote:

my roommate mentioned something to be using Simple Green spray..... just spray it on a warm engine (not hot, but not cold) let it sit with the hood closed for about 10 min... then just rinse with a hose... i dont know about doing that though.. haha.... I have to ask... with the CAI, did you have to change out your mass air flow sensor? or was it just a tweak in the computer?? not gonna lie, im trying to find mucho one ups about my car over my roommates mustang... hahah

I've heard of many people doing this with the Simple Green and say it works great. They also say that they "spray the shit" out of the engine bay with armor all or whatever you have laying around (after washing it down) to make it SHINE... Never tried it myself because my engine bay is never dirty long enough to worry about it . Be very very careful if you have any billet stuff in the engine bay as I've heard this process and really mess up the finish on that stuff. Simple Green may be ok but I think the reference to this was specifically about Gunk Engine Cleaner.

Simple green works great, dont put none of that crap armor all on when your done it attracts dirt. The only thing I reccomend using when your done is a water based shine, I think Matt knows where to get it from. If you hose your motor down with water to remove all the loose dirt then spray it with simple green, let the simple green sit for a few minutes not 10 minutes just a few. You dont want the simple green to dry on you then start your car up hose off the simple green and get any remaining dirt off with a rag. I usually then dry my motor with a towel and if you have a compressor you can blow out the rest of the water and hard to reach dirt. Thats the way I do my motor, people may chime in with different methods.

I used the air compressor and a few different wire brushes to get into the cracks and what not.

Make sure to wash off the Simple Green quickly since it will corrode the aluminum..

shit i am a hillbilly i use a leaf blower to get the excess of water off of my motor... then use a towel then use a water based tire shine on mine but i apply it w/ a applicator let it sit for a couple of min and then wipe off any access that is left...lol...

irishrt5.7 wrote:

shit i am a hillbilly i use a leaf blower to get the excess of water off of my motor... then use a towel then use a water based tire shine on mine but i apply it w/ a applicator let it sit for a couple of min and then wipe off any access that is left...lol...

Hey man, did you try out that blue polish shit??? Did it take care of that spotting???

yeah the shit worked great on my catch can... i will have to do it again before the show thanks again... when i do my heads and cam i will have to use it on my valve covers.... they look like shit...

rep for you

I have a neighbor that's Polish. Maybe I can ask him to bag up some shit for me to rub on my engine. I don't know how he'll make it blue, though. Eat a lot of blue berries?

Yeah, I'm gonne get some more, and do my engine again, I think this time though, I MIGHT use a polisher tool, like a dremel type thing with one of those polisher ends on it to try to polish down in the cracks and hard to reach areas. Hell, maybe over the winter when it's parked, I might take the valve covers off and maybe even the timing cover and polish all the metal on the engine

irishrt5.7 wrote:

yeah the shit worked great on my catch can... i will have to do it again before the show thanks again... when i do my heads and cam i will have to use it on my valve covers.... they look like shit...

rep for you

are these white spots all over????I need to do something about miine as well

yeah all over... this stuff that Adam gave me works amazing...

The covers were originally standard for the '06. I'm missing 3 things in my engine bay that they took off being cheap.