bm3r

i decided to sea foam my car today. i just wanted to post a little testimonial about the stuff cause i think it worked great. it only cost $5.24 at advanced auto, and took about 30 minutes to do, only because i did it twice with about an hour or so in between. a few things...
1. for those afraid of hydrolocking, i poured a **** load in the brake booster line at first and it just stalled out and then i started it back up again to make sure everything was ok
2. i poured it slowly, letting it sit everytime the car would idle high
3. after the revs evened out, i shut the car off for 5 minutes
4. then i started it, and rev'd until the smoke cleared and none was coming out of the exhaust
(about an hour later with half the can left)
i repeated, still got smoke to come out but not as much as the first time. next week ill put in another bottle because i didnt want to just dump it in on the first sitting while never doing this before. my car just turned 116,000 and i changed the oil 1,000 miles ago.

the outcome: faster start up, ehh same idle, doesnt bog down when starting off, clutch grabs faster and feels tighter, doesnt hesitate when rev'd. i guess we'll see if my mileage gets better than 350/tank.

i recommend this product to everyone. its only $5 a can, so thats like not eating mcdonalds for lunch one day

Paprika

I've used it twice also, but I changed my plugs a few days after one seafoam session and they were hit bad. I have pictures to show, my plugs were pitch black man.
So remember two things if you seafoam: Change your oil soon afterwards and check your plugs, you may need to clean them off with a wire brush like I did!

graveltravel

what exactly is seafoaming? never heard of that sheet!

CRX_1.8T

people are really giving this stuff good praise.

originalsin

start buying cases of it, lol because you know the places will catch on and jack up prices

green-

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CRX_1.8T &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">people are really giving this stuff good praise. </TD></TR></TABLE>

It's good stuff

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by graveltravel &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what exactly is seafoaming? never heard of that sheet!</TD></TR></TABLE>

http://www.seafoamsales.com/motorTuneUpTechGas.htm

revvin9k

I did my friends Si today and he can't stop talking about it. I did mine yesterday after seeing it on here.

Turbo E

who sells this in vancouver Canada?

6psisi

wow

Donkey85

if your using good quality plugs like NGK Iridiums you dont need to change the plugs after i've done my car 3 times and never changed the plugs. that part is a total myth. if u have some old shitty plugs that are already gas and or oil foulded out then that my do it but no u dont need to change the plugs everytime u use it

2+2Door

im tempted to try this cus my z6 isnt doing to well on gas. but the thing is that i jsut changed my spark plugs to ngk's (factory replacement) so i dont know if it would make them go all nuts. but yea do they sell this stuff at like a kragens or a autozone???

Donkey85

yeah they have it at those places, if you still have your old plugs laying around put them back in there temp so you can run the seafoam in there then put the new ones back it so they wont get harmed even though i never have had it happen to me

civiccpedx

is it true that it would be bad to run seafoam through my old 174,000 mile motor. My motor burns oil and i heard good things about seafoam, i know it wont fix it, but i have heard that it will cause the leaking and burning to worsen. is that true?

tRex99

the only way i can see that being true is if your oil is burning cause of your rings...say you let goop build up on your rings and stuff then hey your helping it seal itself some ..then u throw that in there and it gets rid of your goop build up then it leaks like a bastard...other then that this sounds ligit..im into doing this kind of maitnance. i uses B12 chemical crankcase or gas tank treatment seemed to work plus B12 chemical has been around hot rod builders forever.

I think im going to have to try this but i have high miles too and notice some oil dissapearing. Now i have a Crx with an Ls motor so where whould i be putting this stuff in? i notice u said brake booster line..where is that im sitting here thinking my booster that my master cylinder is hooked to so im like wtf??let me know!!

Donkey85

seafoam is a great product i dont see why soooooo many people are afraid to use it. it can only help the old tired motor out

bloopie

Helped your clutch eh?

RCautoworks

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Donkey85 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">seafoam is a great product i dont see why soooooo many people are afraid to use it. it can only help the old tired motor out</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not true at all. I would never ever pour this stuff in my oil. This stuff breaks down sludge and other crap, where do you think this sludge is gonna fall to, not any where good. I have also posted many times about this, but I have actually seen people ruin engines after using this product.

If anyone wants a good way to clean there inside of there engine, simply use water. Rev the engine up and spray water into your throttle body, your steam cleaning the inside of your engine this way.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bm3r &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> the outcome: faster start up, ehh same idle, doesnt bog down when starting off, clutch grabs faster and feels tighter, doesnt hesitate when rev'd. i guess we'll see if my mileage gets better than 350/tank.

i recommend this product to everyone. its only $5 a can, so thats like not eating mcdonalds for lunch one day </TD></TR></TABLE>

Glad you recommend it, but please elaborate on how this helped your clutch out ?

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tRex99 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> the only way i can see that being true is if your oil is burning cause of your rings...say you let goop build up on your rings and stuff then hey your helping it seal itself some </TD></TR></TABLE>

Sorry I am kind of lost about what your saying. But if there is a build up on your rings, this build up could actually help seal the rings better. Pouring seamfoam in can actually make the seal worse.

Donkey85

[QUOTE=90blackcrx]

Not true at all. I would never ever pour this stuff in my oil. This stuff breaks down sludge and other crap, where do you think this sludge is gonna fall to, not any where good. I have also posted many times about this, but I have actually seen people ruin engines after using this product.


thats why you put it in the oil right as your about to change the oil. second the "sludge is going to fall into your oil pan and just sit there. then then oil screen on the pick up tube will block it. second it that lets some through then the oil filter will pick it up. and please enlighten us as how is "ruined" peoples motors after use.

ieatrice

[QUOTE=90blackcrx]
If anyone wants a good way to clean there inside of there engine, simply use water. Rev the engine up and spray water into your throttle body, your steam cleaning the inside of your engine this way.


Oh my gosh thats insane. i hydrolocked my motor last time because of rain but. i still think thats insane.

blue2ksi

that is why on the back of the bottle it recommends to change your oil and spark plugs afterwards....

Downey

clutch grabs faster and feels tighter...

uhh i dont understand.. how could sea foaming your ENGINE effect your CLUTCH?

93CivicSI

Change your plugs and your oil soon

93CivicSI

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ieatrice &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">[QUOTE=90blackcrx]
If anyone wants a good way to clean there inside of there engine, simply use water. Rev the engine up and spray water into your throttle body, your steam cleaning the inside of your engine this way.


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That is how you could clean your engineon old school domestics....

I do not now if I would do that on a fuel injected engine.

Paprika

we are getting alot of conflicting replies here. I would love to think of seafoaming to be a very good thing but since that incident with my plugs I can't see past it. Now when I think of seafoam I think of it causing more harm than good.. hell, I dunno...

Anyway, let me address some things here right quick;<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Donkey85 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if your using good quality plugs like NGK Iridiums </TD></TR></TABLE>I had in some Bosh Plantinum +4's and justy recently switched over to NGK V-Powers for their value plus the Bosh ones were garb. I never said you needed to change them, if you are responding to my post, you just might have to clean them - something you should do anyway to help see a difference from the seafoaming.

Donkey85

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Paprika &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Anyway, let me address some things here right quick;I had in some Bosh Plantinum +4's and justy recently switched over to NGK V-Powers for their value plus the Bosh ones were garb. I never said you needed to change them, if you are responding to my post, you just might have to clean them - something you should do anyway to help see a difference from the seafoaming.</TD></TR></TABLE>


i'm not diagreeing with you on that however i'm saying with good plugs its not required. for the record bosch +4's are pieces of ****