Degreasing my engine area Options

[VaccaRabite]

I have the under-pans cleared. The last body area that I need to glear is the super grimey area where the engine and tranny used to be.

Is there anything that I can put on it to clean off the grime easily? I don't want to have to rinse off the metal with water. The entire car right now is bare metal until it gets warm enough to paint. Adding some chemical that I have to rise with water would be a nightmare. I'd rather lightly sand the body to clear flash rust then introduce water in my garage and really have rust start growing.

But I also can't paint over greasy metal, either.

Zach

[PRS914-6]

I don't want to have to rinse off the metal with water. The entire car right now is bare metal until it gets warm enough to paint.
Zach

That would give my painter a heart attack. He never lets them sit bare even for a couple of days. I'd get it primed now.....it will have surface rust if you wait and even worse where you touch it. With it primed, you can do whatever you want.

[VaccaRabite]

I don't want to have to rinse off the metal with water. The entire car right now is bare metal until it gets warm enough to paint.
Zach

That would give my painter a heart attack. He never lets them sit bare even for a couple of days. I'd get it primed now.....it will have surface rust if you wait and even worse where you touch it. With it primed, you can do whatever you want.

Its 40 degrees in my garage on a warm day right now. Painting is an impossibility until the air gets warmed this spring. I know it is an imperfect solution, but I take comfort in knowing that the cold freezes most of the moisture out of the air in the winter around here. If I shot primer now, it would all just wrinkle off when it hit the cold metal.

Zach