So I bought a used 94 Cobra intake off a guy on The Corral and have a slight issue with it. No, there's nothing broken on it and I don't anticipate any issues installing it on the car. The issue is that when he shipped it to me he packed it in styrofoam packing peanuts and during the shipping those peanuts made their way completely up into the intake. I've used my fingers and dug out as many as I could but if I take and shake the upper I can still hear some rattling around in there. My conern is though that even if I get to the point that I can shake it and not hear any rattle it would be very easy to still have a few wedged in there only to have them come loose after it's on the car. I didn't have a change to try this over the weekend, I was busy installing an o/r H on the car, but I'm thinking that I'm going to have to pour a bunch of gasoline into the intake and slosh it around a bunch. If my memory is right, gasoline will disolve styrofoam almost imediately on contact (if not that quickly, then pretty dang quick) and with that I should be able to get rid of any last peanuts stuck in there.
Has anyone had to do something like this before? And please let this be a lesson to everyone. Don't ship or let someone ship to you an upper intake without first bagging it. The lower was packed full too but I could clean it out pretty easily. But this upper, what a PITA!
Has anyone had to do something like this before? And please let this be a lesson to everyone. Don't ship or let someone ship to you an upper intake without first bagging it. The lower was packed full too but I could clean it out pretty easily. But this upper, what a PITA!