How to clean your dirty hood mat without worrying about your engine.

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

Take 1 roll of plastic wrap (I used my honking roll of pallet wrap) and cover the cool engine from tire to tire.

Commence to hosing

not a drop got on my motor and the mat was nice and clean.

 

[Mr95Gl]

Wow, great idea!

 

[AREA 91]

You could have taken the hood pad off.

 

[yamahaSHO]

You could have taken the hood pad off.

Or do like me and wash the hood pad right before you wash your motor.

 

[Phoenix]

Great idea

I wonder what my neighbors would think when I wrap the engine....

 

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

You could have taken the hood pad off.

run the risk of damaging your mat, damaging one of the clips or just plain taking too long. Besides that you would have to leave it out to dry which means there is a potential for "kid next door" damage. My wash down took all of 10 minutes counting the wrap and unwrap. Besides, unwrapping it was like christmas in june. Hey what do we have here? oh a sho motor, how did you know I wanted that?



Oh and Jason: We will always disagree on this, but you run the risk of getting something wet that was supposed to be dry, like the plug wells, the cps, the tps, and any other S that was not meant for h20

I got my tps wet on my crown vic and the car wouldnt idle anymore.

 

[yamahaSHO]

run the risk of damaging your mat, damaging one of the clips or just plain taking too long. Besides that you would have to leave it out to dry which means there is a potential for "kid next door" damage. My wash down took all of 10 minutes counting the wrap and unwrap. Besides, unwrapping it was like christmas in june. Hey what do we have here? oh a sho motor, how did you know I wanted that?



Oh and Jason: We will always disagree on this, but you run the risk of getting something wet that was supposed to be dry, like the plug wells, the cps, the tps, and any other S that was not meant for h20

I got my tps wet on my crown vic and the car wouldnt idle anymore.

I've been doing it for 5 years on my SHO(s) and just did it a week and a half ago. I've never had a problem. On other SHO's with non-stock plug wires, you can pump the water out of the wells with the nozzle from a Windex bottle pretty easily.

In fact, I spray the engine down for a goo 5-10 minutes. I spray literally everything, even the alternator (w/ caution).

I should post a picture of my Civic motor... It's all stock, but it looks brand spankin new.

 

[TYSHO]

Very nice SHO, Michael. One of the cleanest Gen1's I have seen.

 

[Sammy~D]

that is so sweet i just did it works great

 

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

Very nice SHO, Michael. One of the cleanest Gen1's I have seen.

come see it in person at the convention.