chitown928s4

I had to replace the cam cover gaskets because they were leaking and you know the story "While your in There". The intake was flaking more than my hair with dried up hair gel. So thanks to the talents of my man Borys. We decided to take intake and give it a refresh. So these are the results. Ill post cam covers after the reflective lettering goes on.

Tom in Austin

Nice job Rich. Hope you remembered to completely clean out the insides so nothing gets down into your engine

James Bailey

Testarossa envy ??? looking good !

Bertrand Daoust

Very nice job.

It will give your engine bay a whole new look!

Congrats.

Livio928

I'd be careful about calling it '****'. You never know who will chime in to cut you at your knees. (Reference closed 'Seat ****' thread).

I never thought about the painting the side covers to match the script. Although I am not partial to red, I have to say it looks kind of cool.

chitown928s4

I have not cleaned her yet...How or what do you recommend?

chitown928s4

No just letting my creative juices flow...but if it looks like a Testarossa even better.

Livio928

Lots of water and brush the inside as many times as you think is necessary...then do it three more times. All it takes is a few grains of sand to ruin your block.

I had some special brushes made (Brush maker in my building) with a flexible stem and clean and brushed and cleaned and brushed a few times. I have heard that some have used a pressure washer, but I would be careful about that, especially with the new paint.

Mrmerlin

Great looking intake.
Now to clean the inside of the intake manifold ,
use simple green and hot water,
followed by compressed air,
use small bristle type brushes ,
and do this atleast 3 times from start to dry.
If you find any particles after the third cycle,
then you are not finished.

More than a few engines have been wasted from grit blast material getting involved with the cylinders

Jerry Feather

The advise that follows this quoted post is really intended to advise you to have cleaned the intake after the medial blasting, but before the powder coating. I suspect that you, or someone on your behalf, did that cleaning. Otherwise there is the risk that some little pockets of blasting media are left to be covered over with the powder coating and then left to open up some time later to dump their gritty contents into your engine thereby trashing it completely.

The cleaning recommendations appled now will not likely reveal those tiny pockets, if any, that were not cleaned before with the multi-brushing recommendations suggested here, but if there are any, you are at risk.

Otherwise, very nice looking intake.

Randy V

Borys aka Borat? he's a good man.

That color combo looks pretty good.

We've seen so many garish ones over the years.

This has caused several destroyed engines so you really need to be 1000% sure you get it all cleaned out!

Pfc. Parts

Nice job on the intake and I'm glad you posted it, the comments on cleaning before installing were great. I just had mine done last summer and all I did was inspect it and bathe it in degreaser before putting it back in. My engine is still running but now Stan has me thinking I should tear the whole thing down and run the white gloves over it. It was pretty clean when I got it back from the shop, I used the same place Wayne did down in San Diego. They seem to understand intake manifolds.

I did use lint free cloth. A friend of mine used to work for Raychem and he gave me a huge bail of Texwipes, the material they use in clean rooms.

In my case the damage is no doubt already done so I suppose I'll just worry some more. Why else would anyone decide to buy and maintain one of these things?

So someone tell me, how long does it take to destroy an engine that has traces of bead blasting grit in the intake? Minutes? Days? Months?

Chalkboss

That looks great Richard. Nice job.

82Porsche928

Beautiful!

Dave928S

That looks great!! I'm usually not a fan of lots of colour, and tend to lean to factory look, but that combo is really classy.