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shaved engine bay?

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Anyone done it?
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You mean smoothed firewall? cant remove your engine bay lol.

Not that I know of new cars. Lots of hot rods do though.
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95nasta did it.
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What is a shaved engine bay?
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Do you mean a wire tuck? Re-routing the wiring so it's much less visible?
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Oh smoothing the bay? like hiding everything but the engine and trans?
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I shaved the rad support, both areas in front of the strut towers, and the strut towers.
I tucked all body electrical harnesses, brake lines, the battery (in the bumper), coolant res (in the fender), and kept abs (in the bumper).
I still have to finish tucking the engine harness though.
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I was talking wire tucks, firewall smoothing.
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Then, yes besides the firewall. IMO the fuse box cover on the 92-99 looks better there than not. Otherwise the blower box would stick out of place.
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