You know what works really well for cleaning intakes? Ball hair trimmers.

Your videos are always a joy to watch. I know this is basically your waking life, but your work and content is one of the best representations of real car work on UKposts, or anywhere frankly. It shows, nearly in real time, exactly what it takes to do this stuff. Both actually showing the "boring" stuff (I don't find it boring), and bringing your experience that's ever growing to projects, you often present critical tips and tricks that often stump many hobbyists. The level of detail and care of your work always impresses.

Sarah, The best tool you own is your dedication to ingenuity. The Celica IS going to be a beast.

This is by far my favorite of all Sarah's resto builds. The level of effort is totally crazy!

As a retired naval gunner... ultrasonic drives my tinnitus crazy. Especially the water pick thing they use at the dental hygienist office.

Never fail to be impressed by your attention to detail Sarah. I always work methodically but your process is on another level. Guess it's your fathers and airforce influences/training.

Thanks for not taking breaks to sell ball hair trimmers.

In order to clean up those difficult areas, Oven-cleaner or dishwasher tabs helps

Love your content and silly jokes

Future Sarah video - Sarah strips the paint from a red 3 ton engine hoist, mods it with some TIG welds and NOS parts from Japan, then gives it a paint-to-sample respray in her bespoke shop yellow. And we're here for it.

Nice! Engine progress. 👏🏻 That sonic cleaner is paying off nicely. 👍🏻 Can’t thank you enough for not having pointless ads run thru your vids. 🙏🏻😎 P.s. I wouldn’t recommend attempting to fry fries with the cleaner. 😉

Sarah... SERIOUSLY. 97% of all the other videos I watch on YT have randomly inserted ads inserted in them. My brain has automated the process of waiting for the Skip button to resume the video. I barely lose a brain cpu cycle. It's nice to not have them here but none of us expect you to work like a pauper. You provide great entertainment and deserve to yield more reward for your work.

My wife and I literally yell excitedly to each other….”There is a new Sarah video out!” We love the content so much!!

Sarah's obsession with making it right with Toyota parts where possible, and going so far as to try and make it look correct (metal intake vs plastic), is ONE of the reasons I enjoy watching her, and am a subscriber.

The 70's era Muzak was the real cherry on top, Sarah.

Yeah it’s nice not having ads in your videos but I would rather you have them so it can help you financially out but either way I love watching your videos.

I am a degreed electronic technician, and I have always considered installing and wiring an unfamiliar, modern engine to be a major project, with many potential pitfalls in the form of misidentifying the purpose of wires, thus leaving in irrelevant ones, or leaving out important ones. Your level of comfort with this is astonishing!

LOL to the Max! 16:29 I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Ball Hair” on any channel except here! 😂

You are the one who lives by the do it yourself and don’t compromise mentality. Some Jacks will kick you, but they’re just haters with nothing on their plates while you’re the one inspiring people to step up and do things yourself and that takes guts and determination. Everyone can’t be you, but many are inspired by you and what you do does matter. How you do what you do also matters. You go girl and press on as my Air National Guard Commander always said. Yeah buddy!

My Integra GSR has a similar dual runner intake manifold. And while many people thought it was heavy and swapped it for a single runner ITR style manifold, the sound it makes above 5,600 rpm sounds so badass. I still love it even after 22 years ownership.

3:30 same. I struggle and struggle, then think about how much easier everything would be if only I had the right tools or setup...then I remember those things cost money and just continue my suffering.

That engine is looking great because of your attention to detail.

For small parts that need to go into your ultrasonic cleaner use a metal tea ball to put them in, makes getting them out much easier

Love your videos!

I don't trim my ball hair, so i'm glad you don't have ball hair trimmer commercials Sarah.... i appreciate you.

My favorite build yet!

Try a welding supply shop for small quantities of dry ice.

You should be proud! That intake came out looking gorgeous! Well worth the effort! And WAAAAAY cooler than putting a plastic intake on a classic car, I agree.

The correct tool for the job is the tool that has a Sarah at the other end of it. 👌 Adapt and overcome. 👍👊👍

You just keep making great content, stuff the haters.

Always just the greatest! 😊❤️

I think that "rainbow finish" is the cadmium plating.

1 Chalk is not a condiment, it's an appetizers. (Necco Wafers) 2 Thank you for explaining the workings of the intake manifold. 3. I het the X-Man Banshee ultrasonic comment.

If you have access to a bore-camera, you can look inside the valve baffles to see if any sand made it's way in.

Morning! Yes, your ultrasonic cleaner can be used as a deep fryer if you can achieve 350-360 degrees Fahrenheit! As I watch your work I feel confident that I could poorly duplicate your results, until you grab wiring harnesses… which just makes my head explode. All I see is spaghetti that I will hopelessly tangle. 😱 Those cleaned components look awesome! Thank you, Sarah. 👍👍👍

I think that's how I found this UKposts channel. I did a search for car restorations that don't have Ball hair trimmer adds!

Another great video!!! Fun to watch you moving along so fast and efficient

Yea Sarah I was starting to have withdrawals 😜🤪😬 😎👍🍺🇦🇺

Sarah, With the ultrasonic you can put dirty stuff in a ziplock bag or deep bottomed toy boat with cleaner in it. The sonic waves will go through the plastic and clean inside just fine.

Sonic cleaners are your best friend in restoring engine looks , how much spray cleaner you don’t have to breathe in is worth the expense .

The color coded shop thing was hilarious!! 😊 Luv the way your brain thinks and the OCD cleaning is awesome!! VERY entertaining.

Put Ads in your videos. We will still watch them. I even avoid hitting the 'skip ads' on channels I like. Helps to support the channel.

Your ability to find all the correct parts for these old rebuilds is amazing! Always entertaining videos👍thanks for another one.

This is fast becoming my favourite UKposts project. I really hope someone appreciates this enough to make it a booth car for SEMA 2024. The colour and spec is spot on. ❤❤❤

Awesome work as usual. You seem more settled too than you have been. Great to see

Great stuff Sarah. Maybe a helpful tip... I just tried some Berryman's Chem-Dip. I bought 3/4 of a gallon, not very expensive. I soaked some 50 year old small block pistons that were completely covered in baked on carbon. 24 hours in the Chem-Dip and they looked brand new. Carbon just washed off with paint thinner. Those valve covers would clean up in no time. It did not stain the metal.

That intake manifold looks amazing. The result was worth every second you spent on it!

I was just going to cut the lights.

Amazing build Sarah! I have a 2007 VVTi 2UZ-FE V8 powered 4Runner 2wd that I will never part with.

Excellent video. Love your attention to detail and your determination to do things right.

It’s great to see you show the effort that goes into doing such a great build.

Love the 1970's elevator background music.

"I don't have ads for ball hair trimmers" lmao. THANK you sarah for being wholesome and not subjecting us to having to watch those on your channel. maybe RAID SHADOW LEGENDS is more your speed. Kidding of course. please not them either.

Sarah!! I’m going to give you an awesome tech tip/timesaver. When the engine hoist cylinder is at the bottom of its stroke and you need it extended, close the valve, grab the arm by the hook end and just lift it up in the air and hold it for a second or 2. Wham Bam thank you mam, it’s up in the air and you didn’t have to pump it 500 times!!!

Loved this video - entertaining and informative! Watched it for the second time mostly on pause, to absorb all the technical details. Also, a small endorsement to help Sarah avoid ball hair trimmers integrations in her videos: support her on Patreon for as little as two bucks. It's a simple and more cost effective way, cause Patreon's cut is smaller.

“I am totally impressed with your professional cleaning station, woo! 💪 stoked

Notification received (finally figured it out, click the bell lads)! As well as a partial shipment from JDM... your hard work is paying off, thank you!

Amazing as always, can’t wait to see it completed and running.

Another amazing video! Your knowledge and hard work are so nice to see !!! ❤️❤️

Great work! I always look forward to your restoration videos the most because they're so interesting, and your attention to detail is satisfying.

I really like how this car is turning out. I love your attention to detail. I can’t wait to see the finished product.

First thing I do after cleaning aluminum intake/parts, is to give it a couple coats of satin clear, gives it a finished look and you won't stain it by handling, easily wipes clean.

Car resto UKpostsr is not the way to make a lot of money, so here is a little bit to help out so we continue to get more content.

I get to watch an upload early, for a change... (seeing it's only mid afternoon here at my location, somewhere in the world)

These videos make my day. You work so hard! 💜

Sarah... 11:30 - CUT THE HANDLES OFF those brushes, shove the stems into a small battery drill and you'll have an AMAZING cleaning system. I do this to getting between the thin gapped multi spokes on my cheapo ally wheels, and cleaning in small hard to reach areas around my engine and engine bay... With the right cleaner, it WORKS A TREAT! (saves the fingers/grip, wrist & forearm muscles too!) 👌👍 😎🇬🇧

I cannot wait to hear and see this thing in its finished form.

To clean small parts in my ultrasonic cleaning machine, I put them in a "lingerie bag" that are available in the laundry department of stores like Walmart. I have also used several large glass bottles so I can do an initial cleaning followed by a second cleaning. Recently, I found that soaking greasy, grimy parts in Zep Industrial Cleaner (purple bottle) worked as well as the alcohol/acetone/xylene mixture I had been using before.

Love your work Sarah. Can’t wait to see you drive that beautiful beast.

Your awesome. You do such great work and are a great source of technology new and old.

You so smart ! I love the way you learn as you go.

You do such nice work, Sarah. Bravo!

I just got a 06 LX and am trying to replace the spark plugs in the 2UZ today. Sounds simple, I know, but I’ve never done it before 😅 and on behalf of the internet… thank you for not having ads about ball hair trimmers.

This was a great video. I had never seen this Engine...so You explaining these components is awesome. And that this was posted in the morning. Extra bonus for us Early risers. 👍😉✨

I love watching your shows, especially the little comments and expletives!

Progress is coming along nicely Sarah... love watching your detail.

It’s going to be beautiful! Great work.

Awesome progress! Ive built a few unique cars and trucks over the years, and the little things take the most time and can present the biggest problems!

Love your videos. I'm always impressed with your work and knowledge. Thank You!!

Loving this build - oh, and the music slays!

That thing is coming along so nicely. Another great vid

I can't wait for this to be done and see you give it the beans!!! And hear it, let's not forget about hearing it roar!

Awesome job Sarah!

The engine looks fantastic

Love your humor and your ability to adapt 😂, your doing great keep the videos coming we will watch them .

Super entertaining vid Sarah ..... That engine is going to give you goose bumps when you start it up for the first time.

"That's not real life". I absolutely love that!! 😅😂

Sarah, you are a breath of fresh air, very knowledgeable and funny. I love the sound effects and your sharp wit and dry sense of humor. Always look forward to your videos

Sarah's integrity is way high for UKposts...mad respect!

Love your sense of humor and attitude ❤

Yes engine stands are sketchy. The mounting bolts are in a sheer position. I always support the front of the engine with a block of wood or something.

Nice job, Sarah! You always make your projects look like jewelry when completed! ❤❤❤

Awesome series Sarah - loving it!

You can get an engine Cleaning Brush kit by Mr. Gasket from Summit Racing, and a Gun Brush Cleaning Kit and you'll have every brush you'll ever need for detailing and cleaning engines.

I know some channels go all out and finish a build in video, but I really think it depends on the channel. I love seeing the process of this build. Hang-ups and all. It's a bit reality for something that seems like its always sold as a quick and easy thing on UKposts

So excited with the progress!

Very satisfying cleaning on the intake. I used to reach down in and try to clean off residue with a small flapper-doodle, dry. Your coarse bottle brush technique works much better. The bottom of the engine, machined crank @ rods looks fantastic.

Sarah, once again I marvel at your knowledge and skill. It's slowly coming together. I can't wait to see the engineering done and the interior brought together.

The real deal , if a built tuner car escaped from the past and had a baby with a present drifting caged unit , sheer joy to see it coming together, sheer terror when it hits the streets . Can’t Wait for its start up , the ears will be flowing tears .

You always have some of the most unique builds! Keep up the great work Sarah!