My ugly engine bay and how to go about cleaning it up

[white95]

So.. I dropped the ball and didn't paint my engine bay when the motor was out. Short of yanking the motor, do I have any options for sprucing things up? I want to paint whatever I can..

There are some things I want to do:

1) There's some surface rust under the brake booster I'd like to address.
2) paint the booster when I remove it.
3) powder coat accessory brackets
4) install black alternator
5) aluminum coolant puke tank/oil catch can

 

[Steve-Oh]

Re-loom / wrap your wiring harnesses


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[Steve-Oh]

Honestly though I feel for you because I did the same thing. I wish I took a little more time addressing the clean up/painting of some areas of the bay


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[white95]

A few pictures of the ugliness:

 

[white95]

Re-loom / wrap your wiring harnesses


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That's a good idea and I want to do just that.

 

[Orange 94]

pull the engine out again, paint the enginebay orange, paint the whole car orange.

 

[white95]

What you don't know is I came very close (so close, that my wife still gives me shit to this day) to selling my '95 GT and owning a Comp Orange Mach 1...

 

[Orange 94]

What you don't know is I came very close (so close, that my wife still gives me shit to this day) to selling my '95 GT and owning a Comp Orange Mach 1...

 

[white95]

I hesitated... Came to senses, returned with cash and it was GONE... All within an hour bro...

 

[white95]

I also have MM caster/camber plates to install, that should help a bit.

 

[Steve-Oh]

Yeah man some of that stuff can be cleaned up easily! Do the brackets and coil bracket like you said, clean up some wires/re-wrap especially that red stereo wire.


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[white95]

Yea that stereo wire was a ghetto job from years ago when my ground strap broke.. It's slated for the trash can

 

[rz5.0]

Move the coil to the fire wall.. I'm about to do that..
You can paint the alternator your self.. I done it.. About to do it again.
Redo your vacum lines using pushlock fittings im also doing that.
Hide as much of your driver side wires as possible..
Change those hideous heater hoses.
Mask as much as possible and rattle can it.. Will look much better..

 

[white95]

Thanks RZ, I will be looking for the coil relocation pics. Did you take the alternator apart to paint it?

 

[rz5.0]

I did. About you to do it again.. Want some pics?
Ill recocate my coil tomorrow. Ill let you know how that goes.
I can get you pics of what I'm doing tomorrow if you want..

 

[white95]

Yeah, please do!

 

[chris91]

I masked everything off and painted the bay in this one. Turned out great too. If you dont plan on daily driving it ditch the windshield washer tank too. I never take my alternators apart when painting and Ive done 4 of em now. Just take small pieces of tape and shove them into each hole. Then once its cured tak some tweezers and pull the tape out. I heard you take a risk of screwing up the brushes when you take em apart?? :undecided:

 

[Musturd]

That's how I did mine like Chris said . And yea you can mask the bay and make it look pretty good. These cars are super easy to wire tuck as well . That would clean up a shit ton . You could always wait till you decide to paint the car and quickly pull the motor and trans in a few hours and get them to shoot the bay

 

[white95]

How does one perform the wire tuck? I've never attempted this.

 

[Musturd]

I ran wiring inside fenders and and the headlight harness and stuff instead of being on the back side of rad support moved to the front side . I also removed the washer fluid resivoir . If I were to do it again I would have made my fuse box more accessible .