i just bought 88 crx si and it was laggy all over the idle was crap so i just seafoamed today the car has just about 202,500mi! i read on blown head gaskets and all but whatever.. the difference was instant. i will leave it in the oil for 1k and then change it but the stuff gets a fat from me!. wow late tonight i steped on the gas and the response is 100% better


Modified by Shelton at 5:03 AM 9/29/2004

 

What could you tell?

 

What the hell i seafoam?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Nevaeh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What the hell i seafoam?</TD></TR></TABLE> cleans the engine from carbon build up and crap... good stuff!

 

thats the seafoam worked great i have better throttle response my car even though its a d right now is quicker than it was! the stuff work awesome even on the high milage car that i have

 

I've heard of some MR2 owners doing this. Interesting stuff. Plumps of smoke come out from exhaust for about 10 minutes.

 

Interesting. Never heard good reviews from this stuff, may be worth a shot.

What exactly do you do with it? Put it in the oil? Run it through the gas tank?

Alex

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Quik89Si &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Interesting. Never heard good reviews from this stuff, may be worth a shot.

What exactly do you do with it? Put it in the oil? Run it through the gas tank?

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I wanna know too

 

do a search on seafoam there is gobs of info on threads its great stuff

 

You put it in using a vacum on ur car. like the brake booster Vacum. if you poor this stuff in, it could have the potential to Hydro lock ur car. It sucks it in a little a time. and does its thing.

 

Kinda creeped out to try this idea. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages by quite a bit, or rather...the price of a new headgasket

 

Seafoamed my rex at 220,000 just before my smog (re)test to help bring down the NOx. Slowly put in 1/2 can in through the brake booster.

Noticed a big difference in throttle response immediately. It seems like it was temporary though...feeling like a tired A6 again 5000 miles later.

Didn't know about the headgasket issues before I did it or I might have been afraid to use it.

Just add very slowly and admire all the smoke while you're passing the time Do a search theres an excellent photo write up how to do it

Side Note: my radiator fan never ever comes on, but it did while seafoaming - must have gotten pretty hot in there...

 

I used a similar product by valvoline. My neighbor used to work for them and had an extra demo pack of the stuff on him. It made a pretty noticable difference in throttle response and doesn't seem like it was only temporary. It made a LOT of smoke come out and it smelled pretty bad. Of course I was happy with it cause it was free...but it seems a lot like seafoam and I hear its only a few bucks a bottle.

 

seafoam only is sold at napa

 

I've done the same with injector cleaner to clear out everything after failing smog results. After sucking a bottle of injector cleaner in through a vacuum line I was able to fix the areas it was failing for smog!

 

advance auto parts and batteries sells it also

 

to sum it up you can pretty much get it at any auto parts store

 

I will copy and paste my response from the eg forum

I keep seeing all these sea foam post and I thought I would post a little info, sea foam is not always great, I have seen many people use it and have horror stories about it. Blown head gaskets, lack or oil pressure. One of the main things sea foam does is break up all the sludge and it falls down to the oil pan and that could be a big mess. Customers usually ask me about it and I tell them water works wonders. You take a spray bottle ( the ones that mist ) and you hold the throttle open a little with the engine running and you spray a little every now and then. What your doing is steam cleaning the inside of your engine and everything is being burned off rather then falling to your oil pan.

 

no its not, ive seen it at advance auto parts.

 

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I keep seeing all these sea foam post and I thought I would post a little info, sea foam is not always great, I have seen many people use it and have horror stories about it. Blown head gaskets, lack or oil pressure. One of the main things sea foam does is break up all the sludge and it falls down to the oil pan and that could be a big mess. Customers usually ask me about it and I tell them water works wonders. You take a spray bottle ( the ones that mist ) and you hold the throttle open a little with the engine running and you spray a little every now and then. What your doing is steam cleaning the inside of your engine and everything is being burned off rather then falling to your oil pan.

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Interesting. I'm currenty piecing together a D16a6, clean motor, but the IM ports are sludged up, are you saying that if I spray mist water into the TB that sludge in the IM will be burned off?

 

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Yep, think about it and it should become clearer. Your spraying mist into the engine, once it makes it to the head and the engine its gonna burn off but it will also burn everything else off. Next time it rains or is wet out, try to notice if your engine is running any better.

 

aka water injection...hehe, I'd be careful doing it though. Water is not volatile and you have more potential to hydrolock. If you do that make sure it's from a small vac hose or use a fine mist. Another great product is AutoRX, a lot of people use it religiously but it's quite expensive ($24 a bottle) and it's like a 4 step process and you change your oil and filter in between each step. Anyway, at $5.99 for Seafoam I decided to try it today and I didn't see much smoke come out...just a little but I did notice that response picked up. I used a spray bottle to spray it into 2 different locations on the intake manifold. I also poured some into the crankcase. I'm going to run about 1500 miles and do an oil change. BTW, the sludge created by the Seafoam in crankcase will be filtered by the oil filter which is why they recommend you change your oil and filter after 1500 miles or so in anticipation of the stuff building up in your filter.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Reelizmpro &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">aka water injection...hehe, I'd be careful doing it though. Water is not volatile and you have more potential to hydrolock. </TD></TR></TABLE>

If you don't know what your doing you do, its pretty simple though. Take a hair spray bottle, set it to miss, get the rpms around 3,000 and spray every now and then. The only way your gonna lock your engine up is from dumping the hole spray bottle in the throttle body.

 

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so how does anything get from the combustion chamber to the oil pan again?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MugenHonda &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">seafoam only is sold at napa</TD></TR></TABLE>

Advance auto sells it.