glen
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I know this post should be in the induction kit section, but I thought I'd give you all a laugh first ;-)
as some of you may or may not know, I have an AEM V2 induction kit. Great as they are, they do have one really annoying fault.
The top of the induction tube sits a little bit higher than the standard airbox. This is a bit of a problem as there is a cable which sit right on top of it. Now, the standard airbox is made of plastic so it keeps pretty cool when driving hard. The AEM on the other hand is made of metal and gets VERY hot. This in turn ever so slightly melts the insulation on the cable creating small black marks on the induction kit.
I have tried everything I can to move the cable but it wont.
So......this evening when I got home from work, I decided to give it a good clean. Now let me tell you, melted plastic is a BASTID to get off. I tried everything in the kitchen cupboard (and I mean everything which I'll go into in a minute). I grabed my cloths and tried autoglym, megs, autosol, polish, jif, soap everything I could think of and was scrubbing like a tw@t. The weather in Lincoln was muggy so I had a right sweat on. I always get a bit mardy when I'm hot and this was no exception. Had a little tiff with the mrs and the neighbours got a gob full when for the hundreth time I heard the line "you spend more time with that car than you do with Sarah"
anyway, enough was enough.......I was in that mood where "NOTHING was going to get the better of me"
so back into the kitchen I went. Two minutes later I came back out armed with "OVEN CLEANER"
I though RIGHT! I'll move that f*ckin black mark if it kills me.
So I ever so gently sprayed a little oven cleaner on. I waited only a few seconds before wiping it off. I tell you what lads, this stuff is WONDERFUL not only did it remove the black mark but the entire silver paint OOPS!
We'll I'm not going back now, I've started so I'll finish.
Back into the house to grab my tool kit, I took the induction kit out and BLASTED it FULL of oven cleaner. I left it a good half an hour then sprayed it with water to rinse and clean.
Finally dried, polished and protected it with megs.
so..
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, INTRODUCING THE WORLDS FIRST BLACK AEM V2 INDUCTION KIT FOR THE EP3
da da da dum da daaaaaaa..........
Have to say, I'm well inpressed. Just hope it doesn't fall to pieces now
Please note that the marks you can see on the photo are reflections. This thing looks like NEW. In fact, better than new!
as some of you may or may not know, I have an AEM V2 induction kit. Great as they are, they do have one really annoying fault.
The top of the induction tube sits a little bit higher than the standard airbox. This is a bit of a problem as there is a cable which sit right on top of it. Now, the standard airbox is made of plastic so it keeps pretty cool when driving hard. The AEM on the other hand is made of metal and gets VERY hot. This in turn ever so slightly melts the insulation on the cable creating small black marks on the induction kit.
I have tried everything I can to move the cable but it wont.
So......this evening when I got home from work, I decided to give it a good clean. Now let me tell you, melted plastic is a BASTID to get off. I tried everything in the kitchen cupboard (and I mean everything which I'll go into in a minute). I grabed my cloths and tried autoglym, megs, autosol, polish, jif, soap everything I could think of and was scrubbing like a tw@t. The weather in Lincoln was muggy so I had a right sweat on. I always get a bit mardy when I'm hot and this was no exception. Had a little tiff with the mrs and the neighbours got a gob full when for the hundreth time I heard the line "you spend more time with that car than you do with Sarah"
anyway, enough was enough.......I was in that mood where "NOTHING was going to get the better of me"
so back into the kitchen I went. Two minutes later I came back out armed with "OVEN CLEANER"
I though RIGHT! I'll move that f*ckin black mark if it kills me.
So I ever so gently sprayed a little oven cleaner on. I waited only a few seconds before wiping it off. I tell you what lads, this stuff is WONDERFUL not only did it remove the black mark but the entire silver paint OOPS!
We'll I'm not going back now, I've started so I'll finish.
Back into the house to grab my tool kit, I took the induction kit out and BLASTED it FULL of oven cleaner. I left it a good half an hour then sprayed it with water to rinse and clean.
Finally dried, polished and protected it with megs.
so..
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, INTRODUCING THE WORLDS FIRST BLACK AEM V2 INDUCTION KIT FOR THE EP3
da da da dum da daaaaaaa..........
Have to say, I'm well inpressed. Just hope it doesn't fall to pieces now
Please note that the marks you can see on the photo are reflections. This thing looks like NEW. In fact, better than new!
