spent the day with a mate of mine and we cleaned my engine - drained and changed the oil (there was so much gunk in there, dead set hardcore BLACKness), cleaned the engine, changed the oil filter, painted the heat shield thing, was good fun

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thats the OLD oil in the bottle, nice and clumpy

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new oil filter thing

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dirty engine

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all the **** off my engine that had been washed off

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Clean engine, with new oil, oil filter, coloured heat shield, and new spark plugs :) runs nice and smooth now :D

than'k for showing us the pic's eric
na good stuff :D

whos eric?

whos eric?

lol :bowrofl:

mmm i took off the heat shield cos every first and second gen ive looked at , at the wreckers that is, had the factory exhuast headers cracked. so i thought that maybe the sheild did the job too good , ie keep the exhaust too hot leading it to crack.
also i think it looks alot better with it off but each to there own. good job painting it but.

Did you use proper heat resistant paint on the heat sheild? If not it will burn around the bolts and stuff...

Other than that looking good!

Oh yeah, take the rocker cover off and give that a spary to, just the two bolts on the top and it will lift off.

haha sick 1 eric has returned to the 2nd gen section in someone elses car

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Leave him alone he did something productive:P

Did you use the valvoline or the castrol in your car

Looks like a good days work...ever since you've joined up youve been very busy havent you:)

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Leave him alone he did something productive:P

Did you use the valvoline or the castrol in your car

Looks like a good days work...ever since you've joined up youve been very busy havent you:)

castrol, but flushed it thru twice, so one bottle used in the flushing of all the **** out of the tank - swear to god more chunky **** came out the 2nd time round - then filled it up and yeah, was all sweet, took it for a burn down Maquarie Pass near wollongong.
and yeah i get paid weekly, and i try to add new **** to my car weekly :) sorry if ya'll think im posting up ****, if thats the case then i'll tone it down.

castrol, but flushed it thru twice, so one bottle used in the flushing of all the **** out of the tank - swear to god more chunky **** came out the 2nd time round - then filled it up and yeah, was all sweet, took it for a burn down Maquarie Pass near wollongong.
and yeah i get paid weekly, and i try to add new **** to my car weekly :) sorry if ya'll think im posting up ****, if thats the case then i'll tone it down.

it's all good dude. i like the fact u have pride in ur car. take what everyone says like a pinch of salt. there always one bad egg that has to have a wine. keep going it all add up in the end. if u keep the pace going by next year u'll have one of the best keept ( and looking) 2nd gens. dont let the man get u down:D

what ever you put on your plastics in the enigine bay try it on your bumpers
tyre shine works for me
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last weekend when i did this, i filled the oil up to full, i checked it this morning, and it was the practically the same colour as the oil that i put in there, but it was really gritty, ALSO it was only coming up as being half full. wtf?
i used 20w50, do i need to use a thicker grade? 25 60? anyone have any info? im gonna flush it again so i need to know what oil to put back in there.
cheers.

--No oil slicks have been left anywhere ive parked.
--No blueish smoke.

Filter soaks up a bit after running it something like upto 500ml and since theres usually 1L between low and high oil marks i think thats the culprit :)

What degreaser did you use on your engine? Did you just spray the whole engine and hose it off? I want to degrease the **** off my engine but not sure how safe it is to use the hose under there........

just the $2 one from supercheapauto, worked a charm, as you can see by the puddle all the **** that came off, so what you gotta do, pop ur hood hose it all down (some ppl cover the elecronic parts or whatever, i didnt even bother and it was fine)

so:
- pop hood
- high pressure spray the whole bay
- degrease whole bay
- with a rag, wipe clean the parts where its really filthy, or parts u just want to shine
- degrease again
- rub again if needed
- wait approx 1 min
- degrease again
- high pressure hose the whole bay

should be cheering! thats all i did, and it came out awsome.
only used 1 can of degreaser too, make sure u pile it on coz it will eat thru all the crap :)

i also drained, flushed and put new oil in, with new filter, and changed the spark plugs, i did all that BEFORE i cleaned the engine bay
:D

Thanks mate, Ill give her a go on the weekend. Ive got some industrial strength stuff so I might water it down before I go ahead and do this. Thanks for the advice though.