So I received a powder coating kit (Eastwood) as a gift. My wife let me have our old toaster oven to use. Powder coating is incredibly easy. You clean or sandblast the parts to be coated, hook up the machine, spray on the coating, and put it in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. I decided to powder coat my valve covers. Not a pro job but they turned out pretty good.
Having gained some confidence with the powder coating, I cleaned and sandblasted the fuel injector rails and guards. ?I coated the rails yellow and one guard chrome and one in bright yellow. ?
Then I got into that tangle of wires that live under the intake manifold. ?What a mess. ?They were dirty and grimy and sticky, etc. ?So I cleaned them and re-wrapped them and finally got them reinstalled. ?
Love the chrome. I did my intake and bits and pieces including fuel rails and hard vacuum lines with steel-it grey paint. The stuff is amazing and addictive. Yours looks nice and clean. I don’t understand when people spend a pile of money and skip spending elbow grease in cleaning up the old motor.?
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 6:28?PM SubieVanagon via groups.io <wklail@...> wrote:
Having gained some confidence with the powder coating, I cleaned and sandblasted the fuel injector rails and guards. ?I coated the rails yellow and one guard chrome and one in bright yellow. ?
Photo ? ?I broke the plastic bits that hold that mess so I had to get a couple from the wrecker. Haven’t cleaned mine up yet but yup they are gross. I have to rip the bundle apart anyway to move the temp sensor for the reverse coolant mani from RMW. They have a new new one now that you don’t need to do this for but I bought mine 2 years ago?
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 6:30?PM SubieVanagon via groups.io <wklail@...> wrote:
Then I got into that tangle of wires that live under the intake manifold. ?What a mess. ?They were dirty and grimy and sticky, etc. ?So I cleaned them and re-wrapped them and finally got them reinstalled. ?
Of course, before I installed the intake manifold I had to install the RMW coolant crossover pipe. ?When I took the old one off one of the bolts twisted off and I had to use an easy-out and a tap to clean it up. ?However, when I went to install the crossover manifold the bolt stripped out at 7 ft lbs. ?So I had to get a helicoil kit and drill, tap, and install. ?I got it done and I can only hope it holds.
I cleaned and reused the mounting plates. ?I got the motor mounts at O’reilly Auto Parts for about $75 for the pair. ?OEM mounts are about $75 each! ?I generally like to stick with OEM when I can afford it, but motor mounts?? ?I went for the cheaper option.
Somehow I lost the original motor mount bolts, so I had to go to the dealer for them. ?But even there they were about 80 cents each. ?Tighten the plates to the mounts at 31 ft lbs.
Agreed! I bought a parts washer on sale at Harbor Freight and it has made life with this old Subie engine more tolerable. I clean small parts in a two-bucket parts washer that I made for under $10
On my motor the pcv is in the intake so there really isn’t an in between. They moved it to the intake I believe after 2004. Would you still suggest this on the older design where the pcv threads into the intake ??
