See the next few pages for Pinky's wreck. This page is all about the engine bay teardown.
Here's what it started out as not long after I blew the motor last fall:
Of course the aftermath:
Well, That was last fall. Now that it's spring the car has come out of it's Winter doze from under a tarp. The rest of the engine bay was deconstructed and we're left with this:
Yeah, that was kinda dirty...But now...
Unfortunately after using two gallons of solvent in a relatively enclosed space you end up looking like this:
Now that the engine bay is all clean, courtesy of a scrub pad and laquer thinner, time for paint, or rather primer first. Ran out the first go at it, but very shortly it will be all primered, if not all red again.
Latest Update 05/24/04
Here she is all freshly painted with Factory Mazda Paint, Vintage Red:
And the KLZE just came in YAY!!
Motor teardown, here's what the heads looked like inside:
And the car during our big move as it arrives at the new house:
But on to painting things, the Valve Covers turned out very nice. Using aluminum paint for the Mazda Emblem, letting it dry and then masking it off and carefully cutting away excess with a razor blade. Then I used textured metallic spray from Checker and the result was great:
