Seafom
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personally i think seafoam is snake oil. lotsa folks swear by it tho....i used it a cple times \ never saw any appreciable improvement, dam shit is almost 10 bux a can:yikes: ive heard people say it may clog yer cat converter.
What part of the engine? Definately don't put it in the oil, and you could do much the same effect as sucking it into the intake by using water to steam clean the cylinders. Fuel system, run a decent fuel and you won't have issues...
I've never once seen a car run better after a seafoam treatment. They either ran the same, or worse. YMMV
I've never once seen a car run better after a seafoam treatment. They either ran the same, or worse. YMMV
Well some dumd ass (ME) got in a hurry and wasn't paying attention to what I was doing and as bad as I hate to admit to plugged a vacuum line into the windshield washer line. Please I'm hating on myself so bad right now. That just goes to show why the main cus of failure of the 7 mgte is (the dumbass owner)!!
On one of my previous cars, I sucked half a can of it in the PCV valve and put the other half in my gas tank. After I finished the smoke show I pulled the plugs again and they looked brand new (these plugs were ~14 years old at the time and showed it). From what I could see peeping through the spark plug holes the pistons looked to be cleaned of carbon build up.
Can't say I really noticed a performance gain, but it did clean the plugs at the very least. I'd say I got ten bucks worth of lulz from the smoke show.
Can't say I really noticed a performance gain, but it did clean the plugs at the very least. I'd say I got ten bucks worth of lulz from the smoke show.
I remember when I was a kid there was this shade tree mechanic that lived in the neighborhood. Every once in a while I would see one hell of a smoke show. Turns out what he would do was take a quart of transmission fluid mixed with water into an empty milk gallon jug. Hold the carburator WOT, and bottoms up the jug of the mixture into the carb. He said it cleans the inside of the engine.
Looking back at it now I wonder how in the hell the engine didn't hydrolock itself with that much water dumping into the engine.
JStoked, hows that 700rwhp build coming? Any pics?
Looking back at it now I wonder how in the hell the engine didn't hydrolock itself with that much water dumping into the engine.
JStoked, hows that 700rwhp build coming? Any pics?
O it sucked up enoughh to make the oil milky. So we immedantly did a oil change and ran an extra 3 quarts of oil threw the block.
And ya suprapowz I remimber the old shade tree mechanics doing that to lol. No pics yet still trying to get all my parts togeather before I start a build tread.
And ya suprapowz I remimber the old shade tree mechanics doing that to lol. No pics yet still trying to get all my parts togeather before I start a build tread.
Poodles;1774517 said:
I think JJ's writeup about covers it:
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?33563-Seafoamed-the-Supra&p=455112#post455112
It's very good from removing excess cash from your pocket and not much else.
I've used seafoam a lot and I usually just suck it up through a line vac line that will deliver it equally to all cylinders and I let it suck it up till it starts sounding like its bogging down give it a little but never take it over 2,2.5 grand and do it in short duration otherwise you will burn up the cat
Agreed. Water / Methanol injection keep the engine cleaner, and provides other benefits as well - like the ability to run more boost.Supracentral;1774602 said:
It really depends on the application and what you are expecting from it... I did DIY turbo on my miata a couple years back and I got so much oil in the intake manifold/cylinders due to a shitty turbo CHRA. That along with 120k+ of carbon build up was in there, and I a super crappy idle (also due to poor tuning). I used seafoam only in one of my vacuum lines and it did indeed clean out the system post throttle body. Later I started using distilled water/meth injection; this has exactly the same effect and in honesty worked better since it was just slight sprays sporatically vs. sucking half a bottle of seafoam in minutes.
Cliffs:
Does seafoam help? Yes it can depending on your situation, but probably not worth the money over distilled water. Also on engines with a ton of mileage I would be worries about possible damaging of the seals. I see no reason for myself to ever use it again, unless on actual marine applications as it is intended for.
Cliffs:
Does seafoam help? Yes it can depending on your situation, but probably not worth the money over distilled water. Also on engines with a ton of mileage I would be worries about possible damaging of the seals. I see no reason for myself to ever use it again, unless on actual marine applications as it is intended for.
Ok cool I get the point guys. I was convinced with jjs write up. The plan is to go with water meth injection in the near future.
Well I have used just plain water before to steam clean engines and prefer that over sea foam but it does work if you use it in slow amounts instead of just sucking up as fast as you can. My dad showed me the water method first and I have personally pulled apart an engine that have been water treated and everything was very clean besides the mangled rod bearings after some very high reving runs through some twisty roads lol
If you want to spend a few dollars and don't want water in the combustion chamber, put the vacuum line in a bottle of STP fuel injection cleaner. Same principle.