seafoaming!

[turboranger]

Ok im just wondering who here has seafoamed (it is a intake track, oil, fuel cleaner in simple terms, its hard for me to describe it but just google seafoam wrx, seafoam STi, ect.) there car? Or any other ride for that matter. Im planning on seafoaming the upper half of my engine as well as the gas.

[xxthat girlxx]

I seafoamed a few years back. Felt like my car was going to stall during the process. And I had some white smoke if I remember correctly on the color.

[Subie_Erin]

I seafoamed my scoob 2 years ago. It's been a while but I think I dumped some in the gas, put some in the oil, and attached the can to one of the vacuum lines to suck some into the engine too. Lots of white smoke and sounded like it was going to stall. Ran it for about 30 miles then changed the oil shortly afterwards.

You can run around and around the block when you're putting miles on the car...you make a smoke ring :D

[turboranger]

Yea ill probably do the 1/3 application ...

1/3 to gas, 1/3 to oil, 1/3 to bpv vac line. Should be interesting to see how much smoke I can make lol.

[MoN]

Yea ill probably do the 1/3 application ...

1/3 to gas, 1/3 to oil, 1/3 to bpv vac line. Should be interesting to see how much smoke I can make lol.

^ we did this a few months back. The best thing to do to avoid blinding people w/ the smoke while driving it around is to first keep it parked and just rev it up to 3-4k off and on for a few mins. Its going to cause a huuuuuge cloud of smoke.

Its funny cuz this reminded me of when we did this, it was after sunset pretty dark out and as the cloud was being released into our back yard/woods, all we heard was like some sort of large cat/coyote howl/growl... probably in fear of the smoke or suttin... it was prettty scary though made me run back into the safety of my home... :lol: yaya im a city girl.. I cant get used to these strange noises in the woods!

[turboranger]

Just did the upper half (through vac) and it worked out well. The smoke wasn't to bad, bit maybe tha was because it was windy. Just did gas yesterday.

Waiting to do the oil portion when my oil change is up.

[HalfDeadWagon]

My mechanic says seafoam is awesome. But to really clean an engine run some tranny fluid through the fuel system. Put a quarter to half a bottle in the gas take when you are about to fill up then run it to pretty much empty. It might smoke a little till the tranny fluid goes through all the way but it will clean pretty much all the carbon out.

[turboranger]

there is something that would scare me to run trans fluid through my fuel system, though im not doubting you, this just sounds like something id need to research more lol...

[MoN]

^ya ive never heard of such a thing either. If it leaves residual fluid in the fuel system could that cause an issue? Is tranny fluid combustable?

[bannerd]

^ya ive never heard of such a thing either. If it leaves residual fluid in the fuel system could that cause an issue? Is tranny fluid combustable?

Yes, transmission fluid is combustible if atomized :D Even high temperature brake fluid can be burn if atomized. In a solid state it's almost impossible for it to burn, even mixed with high octane fuel.

I would not put transmission fluid in a motor to clean it. If you do get the fluid to burn it's going to burn at a much higher degree and could melt something. Take vegetable oil for example... can be heated to flash point temperatures. Once on fiah it burns at degrees of 2500F which could melt most metals.

Anyways, I will return to this post with some actual results of seafoam.

[MoN]

Ya good point bannered... it just doesnt sound safe period to put tranny fluid where it doesnt belong :lol:

Seafoam FTW!

[bannerd]

I bought some seafoam last night 10$ :( I have a old motor (04 STI) that blew apart so I will see if this crap actually works. I hope it does because I would feel really stupid wasting 10$. Anyways the motor melted a piston on #4 and there is some heavy carbon build up (racing). The point of seafoam is to remove these composites found on the valves which is the same as that found on the top piston. I will first do the normal test which is putting a small amount of seafoam on a piston that has heavy carbon on it. I will then light it and simulate what happens while the engine is moving. If the carbon doesn't change then obviously seafoam is not working properly. If the carbon peels up I would say the momentum of the motor would remove that debris into the exhaust.

Test #2 will be more aggressive.. I will use a cotton swab and just rub it around to see if it actually cleans it. I will get this done tonight:)

[baggedwagonchick]

I do it! I don't know if it works great but I've almost got 200k on my engine and shes still goin strong!

[bannerd]

So I tested the seafoam tonight, I'm a little upset I wasted 10$. Anyways after scrubbing the carbon on the piston and lighting the seafoam on fire (ALOT of white smoke). The seafoam was no challenge for the carbon on the pistons. These pistons had 131,000 miles on them and are not that bad.


Test Number 1 (http://tinypic.com/r/11gq2ko/7)

Test Number 2 (http://tinypic.com/r/2nvdqvl/7)

Anyone want 1/4 a bottle of seafoam? hehe. I would say it did remove the carbon with me touching it.. but you really can't do that. The combustion and the injector spray might counter this but I highly doubt it.. carbon builds up this way from the get go. Adding seafoam ...well watch the videos.

[bannerd]

Round three,,,

Test Number 3 (http://tinypic.com/r/s6uiv7/7)

[MoN]

Why would there be sooo much built up carbon on your pistons at 130mi? What type of gas have you pumping?

[bannerd]

Why would there be sooo much built up carbon on your pistons at 130mi? What type of gas have you pumping?

131,000 miles :p These pistons saw 93 octane all the time and airplane fuel other times.:D

[MoN]

lol oh excuuuse me :rolleyes: Is it normal to have that much build up on them or is this a bad issue? Now you have me worried and I want to check mine. I feel like Im having a misfire or lag or something wierd going on in that area, like a spark plug is out or something, but Ive checked them and they area ll fine....

[bannerd]

lol oh excuuuse me :rolleyes: Is it normal to have that much build up on them or is this a bad issue? Now you have me worried and I want to check mine. I feel like Im having a misfire or lag or something wierd going on in that area, like a spark plug is out or something, but Ive checked them and they area ll fine....


You'll always have build up in any car, that's just the way it works. Since the crank case vents into the cars intake there is also a small amount of oil burning as well. This is part of emissions and a lot of people take care of this by other means. Those pistons were a result of the car being raced on stock pistons. Eventually they ate it hard so I need to rebuild the mo-tard. Stock pistons are not the best... they last along time if you never rev (who wants to not do that?) the motor and drive like a old lady. When you upgrade to a forge pistons they resist heat allot more.. carbon is a by-product and eventually burns off. I pretty much knew it wouldn't work from the get go. Eventually carbon build up just burns off(no need for sea foam). I've never seen a valve seize.. typically with 100-200K on a motor the valves need to be re-lash and gauge back to specs. If they are out of bounds replace the valve/spring assembly. Something with 300K on it deserves a head job.

I wouldn't worry about it... if you think some damage was done to the motor take it to get a compression test and a leak down. Make sure you do both and walk away from the mechanics that state they're the same thing.

[PLASMICwrx]

We did this to the evo a couple of weeks ago! Omg this is amazing stuff!