share your methods to cleaning a orig engine bay.

[budnate]

I want to pose a question..

you buy a nice clean old heap and it has the normal 3/8 thick grease on the lower part of the motor and trans and the firewall and fenders look good but dirty...

I normally blast off all the grease and leave things as they are..but never really found a good method to clean the firewall and fenderwells back to a pretty nice stock look without damaging it with a chemical...as crazy as it sounds I have found oven cleaner is a dandy cleaner just a little hard on rubber if you leave it on to long....if its on for only a short while and rinsed off it tends to lift the grease well, but can discolor the paint and leave it milky looking, but only sometimes.

what do you guys use to clean the black paint and not wreck it in the process...????

I dont have a real steam cleaner but man Charleys blast jobs look really good in the photo's.

throw me some ideas....