Engine Drivetrain 2nd Gen S Most liked posts in thread: Make your own Walnut Shell Carbon Blaster

I want one of these! Lol. Only problem is that I don't know a thing bout machining or know any machinists.

 

:cornut: Well you're a member of MA and IF you live up Ohio way.............PM MM

Jason

 

:cornut: Just go to the Private Messages Section. Send your message to Metalman and he'll send you back a message probably tomorrow. Good Luck

Jason(I'm actually in Texas. Metalman is a member of Mid Ohio MINIs)

 

Great work so far MM!

 

Oh OK gotcha. I didn't look at the username lol.

 

I don't know how they do it, bit since mine's an auto transmission I plan to use a socket on the crank pulley...seems like you should be able to do two cylinders, then roll it over and do the other two.

 

I'll be watching this one. I looked at these media blasters and immediately canned the though after seeing how expensive they were versus how much I'd use it. Good ole gun cleaners for now and elbow grease.

 

If you have a good compressor and shop vac you only need about $100 worth of special tools and the walnut media. I have heard of people paying as much as $1500 for this service and as low as $300 in a 10 person group. I posted links from ECS Tuning in a previous post in this thread.

 

I'll have about $150 in mine including the 25lb box of walnut media, but I have air and a shop vac already...

 

It is so sad to have to do this to a $30K car, but that is some damned fine ingenuity making it yourself!

 

Yeah, I have a Harbor Freight pressurized blaster, a monster compressor to drive it, and a shop vac... I thought the shop tool had some kind of custom manifold to connect the blaster to the head - no?

Edit: OK, I just looked at the Wezag tool. Looks like it just has some kind of customer "extraction adapter" - I guess to go on a vac?

 

It IS a catch can...

 

:cornut: Thanks Crashton....................I needed that!:devil::arf::lol: (but I'll NEVER restart that argument:frown2:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Jason

 

It's looking like this is going to be the Best Damn Built walnut blaster ever made.

Stand back and enjoy everyone. This man is a professional and knows what he is doing.

Keep up the great work MM.

 

Impressive ! subscribed

 

Cool Chuck, your valve springs have racing stripes! Looks nice & clean in there, one can see you are not a 15,000 mile oil changer.

 

I have a buddy with a Costco version of that that has a wireless screen and also takes vid, here's what mine looked like - it's a little dark, but I think you'll be able to see what I'm up against. Oh, and pay no attention to the date, he hadn't set up the cam software yet.

My car still hasn't thrown a code, i'm thinking about unplugging a spark plug wire, that should put in a code for a miss!

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Sure that isn't a lightweight MINI flywheel your turning Chuck?

Dave it looks like your MINI needs shells. That is a pretty neat camera.

 

Yep, it needs something for sure.....

Now I'm a little stymied, not only was I hoping to get the dealer to do it under warranty but my car won't throw a code, plus I also found out we have this super zoomy MotorVac thingy at school that's supposed to be able to clean the valves chemically and I want to put it to a tough test.......

At the same time I have my blaster all done and ready to go, and all I need is a free couple of days to try it out, and I'm buried between work (finals week and grades due in) and working on a fellow MINI owner's car.......

Oh well, I'm still in warranty for another couple of months......

Metalman might have his done and operational before I get to mine.

Metalman, are you going to follow the model that the "factory" unit uses? If so, where are you going to get the dual flow handle? How much are you going to restrict the outflow nozzle?

On mine I see it as just a 2 man job, one guy guiding the nozzle and the other turning on the handle that lets the shells into the blast stream, then shutting them off again to allow the air to blow the remaining stuff out to the vaccuum.