Giulia Tech CommunityEngine Cleaning Tips and Tricks {gallery}tidbits/enginewash{/gallery} Shown above is a 1986 Acura Integra. Besides the obvious painted valve cover and new battery, the only thing different between the two photos is a good cleaning. Total time spent, including paint only comes to about 2 – 3 hours. A lot of
Stubborn stud removal and installation Studs can be tricky. Sometimes they get frozen in place and are very hard to remove. If you never want to reuse the stud you are trying to remove, then by all means just grab on to it with vise grips and give her a
After removing the coolant lines running to my throttle body and IAC valve I found it necessary to block the supply and return ports in the intake manifold. I first did this by simply securing rubber coolant caps over the steel lines, but these quickly became dry rotted and I
Since I use a 6th gen wireing harness on my engine my intake air temperature sensor is located in the intake tubeing. The d15b VTi manifold I swapped to has it mounted in runner #2 of the intake manifold itsself. I wanted to remove the temp probe from this runner
The real fact is, all cars use oil. Oil has to travel into some places that it can't return from. Some of these being the top ring of the piston and between the valve stem and valve guide. It is simply impossible to build a properly lubricated engine that uses