soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

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oskar_subaru
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soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

Post by oskar_subaru »

and found this....
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this is a motor that i personally took out of a running parts car 14 months ago,
do you guys think it will be alright ? it cleaned up alright with some brake clean and a tootbrush.

what would have caused this ?
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Re: soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

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WTF???

What was that stuff? One side looks slimey and the other side looks scaley.
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Re: soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

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One of those looks like there's flesh, blood and bone inside. How the hell did it get like that?
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Re: soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

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That first pic looks like there's bacon in there. Awesome.
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That churns my stomach. Looks like someone tried to feed it a bacon burger down the intake...
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Re: soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

Post by FundamentalyConfused »

That's some nasty stuff there.

How was the engine running b4 u pulled it?

From the looks of that plug I'd be surprised it it was running at all!!
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Re: soooo, i took my intake manifold off....

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GOOD LORD. Did a snake crawl up in there!? What happened!?
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