You done good!!!!!! Looks great. The four banger Hondas are reversed now......intake in front, exhaust in back, I don't know when that started. Now that you put in the major effort it will be a cinch to keep it looking that good all the time.

I saw an exhaust manifold guard like yours where the guy removed it, masked it off, and did the rectangle with the "hot" (DUH!) warning in hi temp red and the rest in hi-temp silver/grey. It was SHARP!

 

That sounds like a good idea! I have some high-temp red from when my bro painted his calipers.....so I would just have to buy the other.

 

Not to mention it would compliment the Redtop Optima battery, eh?

 

My take on it is that if anybody that works on the car at any point is dumb enough to touch a hot manifold then they shouldn't be under the hood in the first place (including myself... )...

THAT is funny!!

What you don't want to hear from a "mechanic"....."Durn Clem, them thar pipes are hot!"

 

I learned about hot manifolds and exhaust when I was young (they hard way of course). My go-kart motor always needed work and I'd burn myself on the muffler when I'd take it apart (Or when I was in the mood to make some noise and some extra power)

 

Lol.....I guess I am the smart kind of guy that sees that it says hot and doesn't touch it.

 

You should be very careful what you apply Simple Green to. I made the mistake of cleaning my motorcycle chain with it, and it ruined the o rings and therefor ruined a $125 chain. Apparantly SG has a corrosive effect on certain materials.

 

Very good point. I should have mentioned that when I use Simple Green on the engineI dilute it 2-1 with water.The dilution depends on the severity of the gook you're trying to remove.

 

Thanks for pointing that out. You have no idea how much I use that stuff for cleaning. It was diluted for cleaning my engine (partially because I would have sprayed a whole gallon on it with my spray gun).....but I will keep that in mind for future projects.