Seafoam?
04-21-10, 03:18 PM
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Seafoam?
So i put some seafoam in my gastank and my oil today.
I let the car sit for about 20mins started it up reved it for 10mins drove the car around but NO SMOKE like it shows in the video on its website.
And im worried now. could this be a bad thing or is this normal for are cars.
I let the car sit for about 20mins started it up reved it for 10mins drove the car around but NO SMOKE like it shows in the video on its website.
And im worried now. could this be a bad thing or is this normal for are cars.
04-21-10, 03:36 PM
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If you put it in the gas tank is only going to clean the injectors, as of the oil is only going to take off the sludge of the crank shaft to see the smoke how you saw in the video you are suppose to let the engine suck it up threw the vacuum line. It takes off the carbon build up well burns the carbon build up. Some people say its great while others say no thanks.
Since you put it in ur oil don't run that oil for more than 200 miles max if not say bye bye to your engine.
Since you put it in ur oil don't run that oil for more than 200 miles max if not say bye bye to your engine.
04-21-10, 05:45 PM
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I wouldn't even drive it with any solvent added to the oil. Idling with no load, sure, but DRIVE and put a load on the rod bearings with reduced viscosity because the oil's been diluted with a solvent? No way.
04-21-10, 06:40 PM
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I am a new member here, so I wouldn't be offended if you disregarded what I have to say. That being said --
It's interesting because I've used seafoam with decent success in many of my other cars. The other day when I was dropping off my IS350 for the recall work, I was talking with the service advisor about cars in general. This guy was a "man's man" and knew quite a bit about the car, so we had a little discussion about the 2gr-fse engine. My long winded point to this story, is I started talking about how cool it was to have 12 injectors on a 6-cylinder. The guy was telling me about how the 250 motor only had DI. He was telling me that they were ripping the heads off the cars in order to decarbonize them since no fuel cleaned the back of the valves.
He told me they now use a GM product (Top end cleaner) and they have had great results.
My weekend toy is a Dodge SRT-4, so I know a lot about Mopar stuff, and mopar has a combustion chamber cleaner that is an aerosol which is extremely easy to spray into a vacuum source (I prefer the brake booster source).
Before and after pics of a miata engine
I will throw this caution out there, as I've used seafoam and Mopar CCC many times...
1. You will want to change your oil after you do it (Some passes by the rings and dilutes your oil)
2. You will want to change your spark plugs after you do it (some of the carbon that is cleaned from the valves, piston crowns, and combustion chamber can get gunked up in the air gap between the electrode)
3. There is a chance it can foul your o2 sensors, or worse, damage your catalytic convertor.
I've seafoamed my cars right before a California Smog inspection, and it was so clean, some numbers were actually not detected, so in my cases, it's never hurt the cats or o2 sensors.
It's interesting because I've used seafoam with decent success in many of my other cars. The other day when I was dropping off my IS350 for the recall work, I was talking with the service advisor about cars in general. This guy was a "man's man" and knew quite a bit about the car, so we had a little discussion about the 2gr-fse engine. My long winded point to this story, is I started talking about how cool it was to have 12 injectors on a 6-cylinder. The guy was telling me about how the 250 motor only had DI. He was telling me that they were ripping the heads off the cars in order to decarbonize them since no fuel cleaned the back of the valves.
He told me they now use a GM product (Top end cleaner) and they have had great results.
My weekend toy is a Dodge SRT-4, so I know a lot about Mopar stuff, and mopar has a combustion chamber cleaner that is an aerosol which is extremely easy to spray into a vacuum source (I prefer the brake booster source).
Before and after pics of a miata engine
I will throw this caution out there, as I've used seafoam and Mopar CCC many times...
1. You will want to change your oil after you do it (Some passes by the rings and dilutes your oil)
2. You will want to change your spark plugs after you do it (some of the carbon that is cleaned from the valves, piston crowns, and combustion chamber can get gunked up in the air gap between the electrode)
3. There is a chance it can foul your o2 sensors, or worse, damage your catalytic convertor.
I've seafoamed my cars right before a California Smog inspection, and it was so clean, some numbers were actually not detected, so in my cases, it's never hurt the cats or o2 sensors.
04-21-10, 10:21 PM
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You can do the same thing with water and it doesn't have any risk associated with it.
