Originally posted by bavarian3
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To answer your questions:
- I don't use anything fancy. Waterless car wash (I use the AMMO NYC stuff) for making things look pretty, diluted dish soap in a spray bottle for dirtier areas and diluted simple green in a spray bottle for super grimy stuff. Just make sure to use the aluminum safe simple green if you're going that route.
- Pulling the front clip is great if the front of your engine is super dirty and you want to clean everything up. If you're already draining coolant, then it's not a ton more work. No need to discharge the AC, the flexible lines going to the condenser allow you to just swing it out of the way.
- I think it was definitely worth the effort on this car because of all the maintenance/work that had gone into it prior to the swap and because I don't really plan to get rid of the car. However, I'm not sure that's true for everyone. The swap is extremely time consuming/expensive, adds zero value to the car and effectively makes no difference in regular day to day driving (unless you're driving like a lunatic). I do think that the MK60 is a much better system than the MK20, and you can make a case that the better ABS makes the car safer on the street and that the better traction/stability make the car safer in the wet/snow. However, for me, the benefits of this upgrade are almost exclusively limited to the track. If this car was 100% a street car, I likely would not have bothered with this.
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