Bays by PSU

[mfbmike]

I took the first step lastnight. Removing the black fabriclike hoodliner and the rubber trim off the front of the hood.

Engine much more audible.

[Squirrel Nuts]

[PSU]

Been receiving a lot of PMs about the dipstick:

-- The dipstick is just the OEM dipstick... basically just scuff it and spray it with a spray paint of your choice. It can also be PlastiDipped.

[KIDVersion1]

Plastidip?

Never heard of it.

[kevin FaKiN spLits]

on the rabbit there are all these brackets holding sensors and wires that are that ugly gray color, so I took the most visible ones first and wrinkle coated them pics to come in an hour

[kevin FaKiN spLits]

Plastidip?

Never heard of it.

Plastidip was given to us from Narnia. Its rubber paint, that you can peel off, tho I'm sure your just being smart

[KIDVersion1]

tho I'm sure your just being smart

Nope.

[PSU]

Plastidip?

Never heard of it.

Shut up.

[KIDVersion1]

Sent from the bowels of Long Cat.

[PSU]

Check your PM.

[PSU]

Made a little bit of progress this morning...

Going to run it by MoWsE and see what he thinks...

[chris@watercooledind]

Great write-up!

[kevin FaKiN spLits]

Great write-up!

Indeed

[MoWsE]

Made a little bit of progress this morning...

Going to run it by MoWsE and see what he thinks...

See what I think? My opinion matters?

[PSU]

See what I think? My opinion matters?

Don't have any before shots, but I tucked that harness with three connectors on it. The way I re-routed it makes me iffy, but it'll suffice.

If you look closely, you can see the silver piece where there used to be a little metal bracket.

I was going to ask your opinion because doing this leaves no slack at all in the harness.

[MoWsE]

Don't have any before shots, but I tucked that harness with three connectors on it. The way I re-routed it makes me iffy, but it'll suffice.

If you look closely, you can see the silver piece where there used to be a little metal bracket.

I was going to ask your opinion because doing this leaves no slack at all in the harness.

Looks good! I was going to work on doing this here soon, figure what better time to tear stuff like this apart than when she's in the shop and already torn apart... Doing my S6 light as well, since the front is already off...

Is there any stress on the harness during driving? That's the only issue I could see you having really... Mainly from engine movement, etc... I'll start ripping into mine tonight, I'll let you know what I figure out and come up with...

[PSU]

Here's a before shot...



Much, much better.

It's just resting underneath the throttle body... don't think there is enough movement to do any damage to the wires.

[MoWsE]

Started working on the back and right side yesterday... You're right, that harness really doesn't have much room... But we checked it out and everything seems ok, gonna hopefully finish it up tonight...

BTW, driving out car with no hood on is crazy loud, LOL!

[fahrenheit62]

very nice

[mfbmike]

What's a good way to clean the actual engine block? Lightly damp cloth with regular soap/water?

[PSU]

Started working on the back and right side yesterday... You're right, that harness really doesn't have much room... But we checked it out and everything seems ok, gonna hopefully finish it up tonight...

BTW, driving out car with no hood on is crazy loud, LOL!

LOL. Doing work with the hood off.

** The piece on the upper left corner of the intake manifold... did you have to detach that to tuck that harness?

I had to take mine off the clip.

[PSU]

What's a good way to clean the actual engine block? Lightly damp cloth with regular soap/water?

Water and/or Simple Green.

[mfbmike]

Water and/or Simple Green.

thx.

[kevin FaKiN spLits]

What's a good way to clean the actual engine block? Lightly damp cloth with regular soap/water?

Brillo pad with degreaser when engine is cold of course.






Then youll want to grab a dremel, with wire brush, rough polish the gray area's and then use marine clean. Then you will want to get some sand paper and go to work on polishing that baby up

Haha see what I did there!

[mfbmike]

Brillo pad with degreaser when engine is cold of course.






Then youll want to grab a dremel, with wire brush, rough polish the gray area's and then use marine clean. Then you will want to get some sand paper and go to work on polishing that baby up

Haha see what I did there!

[MoWsE]

LOL. Doing work with the hood off.

** The piece on the upper left corner of the intake manifold... did you have to detach that to tuck that harness?

I had to take mine off the clip.

Well technically I was actually driving it with the hood off, no front bumper and no drivers side fender It's in the shop getting work done and all that stuff repainted, so it was all off...

If I remember correctly, we did have to detach it... There were a couple sets of hands in there working on moving stuff, LOL!

[kevin FaKiN spLits]

I polished the head and timing chain cover anyways not the black block of course

[MoWsE]

I polished the head and timing chain cover anyways not the black block of course

Pics?

[PSU]

If I remember correctly, we did have to detach it... There were a couple sets of hands in there working on moving stuff, LOL!

Nice! I need to get my whole front resprayed this winter.

... and yup. I cut my thumb all up in the process.

[kevin FaKiN spLits]

Pics?

Ill try an get a distinguished pic with this phone. I got lazy on polishing it so it dulled out a little from the heat but you can tell its been done

Here I tried!lol

[20AEgti-MK5R]

PSU great looking bay! Well played sir, well played!

[PSU]

PSU great looking bay! Well played sir, well played!

Thanks.

[fahrenheit62]

after seeing this i also removed my insulation and rubber strip. looks alot cleaner

[PSU]

after seeing this i also removed my insulation and rubber strip. looks alot cleaner

Do work.

[jermz]

what happened to the pictures ?