You can even lightly blast delicate wires, connectors, and hoses with no fear of damage or getting water in them and shorting them out. Any rice fragments left evaporate to nothing in seconds.
You can see a shiny engine starting to emerge from the dirt!
The caked-on oil and dirt around the timing cover is no match for the rice blasting it.
As you can see in the video the process is quite loud!
Stay tuned, now that everything is clean, we are going to pull the motor and trans and start doing some fabrication to improve the cage and seat mounts for safety.
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That before and after shot is amazing. Love it.
after? you mean those shots taken from 10 feet away?
It is what you get. Sorry if you didnt like the pictures.
I apologize for my passive aggressive comment. feel free to delete me being an idiot… or leave it up for all to see…
“This process is much faster and safer than simple green and elbow grease.”
If dry ice blasting isn’t in the budget my go to solution for the past few years has been Scrubbing bubbles and an electric pressure washer.
1. spray liberally in the engine bay until it looks like it snowed there.
2. Let sit for a min or two
3. Rinse with an electric pressure washer (the gas powered ones are too strong).
Now this doesn’t alleviate the need for caution around electrical connectors, but other than moisture in a distributor cap I haven’t had any problems.
I do the same but with simple green. I originally wanted to just clean things up and send it but the project is turning into a complete race car build with pulling the engine….