best to have degreased it while it was a whole engine, but not to worry.
brake cleaner and a wire wheel on a drill will clean you up nice.
dont think its wired wheeled yet here, cleaning the 3mm of carbon off the pistons,
after the wire wheel, i laid the heads on and the lim no gaskets, or bolts, taped off the crank and primed it all as one.
then i went with yellow cause why not?
oil pan timing cover gasket and rear cover gasket were all replaced before painting. heads and lim got bolted up afterwards.
this is about a year later, its not perfect and clean no more, but still looks better then the stock old crap. i just washed it. tip i got for washing it was to use car wash soap, not degreaser. degreaser kills the finish and the shine.
