Steam cleaning the Engine Bay?

[Celtic Val]

I've just had a Motordyne Plenum spacer plus carbon dress up kit fitted in my 350Z...now the engine bay reeeeally needs a clean up, Im told it can be steam cleaned? Anyone know where I can get it done please.

[VidalBaboon]

Plymouth Citybus

[LancerG]

I would be very careful - when most people say steam clean, they mean jet wash and it will kill your electrics.

Either buy a steam cleaner from the shopping channel that has a small jet nozzle and do it by hand, or if i was you I would buy some GUNK engine degreaser and alot of rags. Warm the engine first, not fully hot though as the manifolds will hate it, then spray on the gunk and leave it for 10 minutes. Then rinse it off with low pressure water, watering can or super soaker water guns have worked for me in the past.

Then look for areas that need more attention, spray with gunk and rub with the cloth....repeat until clean

[snowmuncher]

Pressure or steam round lots of plasti-rubber turbo pipework can lead to boost leaks ...

The Gunk method works well

imo green gunk is better to use
Maybe not quite as strong, but isn't quite so unpleasant to use

You can also find equivalent strength de-greasers in larger volumes for the same/similar price you'd pay for branded gunk on ebay

[Celtic Val]

LancerG said:

I would be very careful - when most people say steam clean, they mean jet wash and it will kill your electrics.

Either buy a steam cleaner from the shopping channel that has a small jet nozzle and do it by hand, or if i was you I would buy some GUNK engine degreaser and alot of rags. Warm the engine first, not fully hot though as the manifolds will hate it, then spray on the gunk and leave it for 10 minutes. Then rinse it off with low pressure water, watering can or super soaker water guns have worked for me in the past.

Then look for areas that need more attention, spray with gunk and rub with the cloth....repeat until clean

Hmmm Im thinking that I should get someone who knows what they are doing to do it for me.

[lexusboy]

Doesn't necessary do anything to the car.

I've jet washed my engine bay numerous times, which is a 15 year old french car, and I've never had any issues at all

[andym1603]

Same here. I always pressure wash under the bonnet every second wash to get rid of the dust etc. Never had an
issue. Make sure the engine is not running and cold though to avoid condensation build up.