Seafoam experience???

[jrnicl3]

How did it work for you?
Modified by jrnicl3 at 11:24 PM 6/25/2009

[emiliog2276]

Just used it two weeks ago and if you use it you should be able to feel a noticeable difference in the performance of your car. Now if you add it to your oil make sure to do an oil change within 100 miles or so. If do the induction method using the brake booster hose will get sea foam thru only 1/4 of the intake manifold. Here are some instructions for the induction method.1. (While looking at your engine from the front bumper.) Look on the left side of your passenger side throttle body for a small air hose that connects to a very small control unit just upstream of the intake manifold piping.*NOTE* there are 2 hoses on the passenger side throttle body, use thesmaller diameter one.

2. I used 2 cans of sea foam for this because it makes it easier. With the left over, you can stick it into your fuel tank

3. Disconnect that hose from the control unit. The total length of this line is approx 5-6 inches. *NOTE* if your engine is old, this line might break so be very careful with it wiggling it off the control unit its connected to.

4. Now, you need to stick the open end of this air line into the sea foam product. you will not be able to do this using the stock sea foam bottle it came in. Heres what I did instead.--->Grab yourself a small water bottle comparable to a dasani bottle (the smaller ones, 12 oz). Cut this in half and wedge it in between the passenger side throttle body and teh AC compressor lines, put the air line into this before you wedge it in. Pour sea foam into this container. your all set on passengers side now.

5. Locate the Drivers side throttle body and look on the right side of it for a small air line. This air line runs to the front of the car around the radiator area. Disconnect this hose from the radiator area nipple its connected to. Grab your other can of sea foam, or whats left of your first one, and stick this tube into the bottle. The length of teh Drivers side throttle body vacume tube is approx 18-20 inches so you have plenty to play with.

6. Right now you should have both of the throttle body vaccume lines disconnected from their respective control units and stuck into 1 can of sea foam, and the other into a container containing the sea foam product on your passenger side. This next step can use an optional 2nd person.

7. Start your car. The vaccume lines will not have sufficient vaccume to suck up the liquid until approx 1500 RPM's.

8. Have you or a buddy rev the car up to 2000 RPM's and try and hold it there. Have the other person monitor the cans of sea foam to make sure you only put half the can of each into each throttle body vaccume line.

9. when the liquid starts to get sucked up, your car will sputter hard and THICK white smoke will billow out of your tailpipe. Keep the car running until you have successfully took in half a can of sea foam per throttle body (1 full can total). Tell your buddy at this point to let off the accelerator and your car WILL die out.

10. Let the car sit for 10-15 minutes.

11. Hook up the vacume lines that you disconnected at this point...

12. Wash hands during this time and smoke. *Note(sea foam is flammable. The order of events in step 11 should be followed closely )

13. After your 15 minute wait. Try to start teh car. It will not start immediately. You might have to try it a few times. Get it started anyway you can and hold a rev of about 4500-5000 on the tach. THICK white smoke will be billowing from the tailpipe at this point. AFter about 1-2 minutes the smoke will slow down, let car rev back to idle and take the car out on an open road and drive the ****er like you stole it for a good 3-7 miles. I was redlining every gear I could.

14. Done.

[ztommyx]

^^ how do you know this is the method?

i've never used more than half of the sea foam (from a half cut water bottle) for the cleaning.

or maybe i'm just being cautious.

[Z32 TwinZ]

^^ how do you know this is the method?

i've never used more than half of the sea foam (from a half cut water bottle) for the cleaning.

or maybe i'm just being cautious.

Same here, i put half in the booster and half in the gas tank twice a month. When i first did it not a lot of smoke came out, i think my engine has been taken care of its whole life. Now my friend put some in his volvo and it start dumping smoke. So i think seafoam does what it says its suppose to do. Ill give it the

[franklin93zx]

worked great for me. it was a noticalble difference did it in the oil fuel tank and throttle bodies. she smoked pretty good to hahah

[NissanFairladyZ32]

Great product, for cleaning the intake manifold

thats the only thing ive done in my tt with it brake booster treatment

[vda240]

My friend put the whole bottle into his intake, started it up, revved it to 5K and his engine blew. Fun story isnt it? (serious)btw he has a 2003 Silverado truck, maybe thats why it blew

I used half a bottle into my intake/tank on my 240sx before, it was fine, felt really good and opened up after usage. However for some reason I dont trust it to be used in my z

[GerryO]

Pulling the plenum is so much better, more effective, more worthwhile and fun.

[dantesdoom]

yes it works....cleans s*** out of the gas tank as well...and even after having motor rebuilt it smoked more than Keith Richards. LOL... gets deep in there

[T45]

Be careful with this stuff. Putting too much in too fast washes the oil from the cyl walls and will cause damage to your rings. BG44K is the best IMO, but seafoam has its purpose and works well when used correctly.

[DanDrath]

Does that bg just clean engine and components or the intake too

[apirateslife]

I just used it today, i really shows how the previous owner manhandled the car, I had an idea when i replaced the sparkplugs and found some awesome AC DELCO's, anyway, just did it this morning and already noticed the difference, if only it would clean my throttle body for me so i didn't have to this weekend.... which gives me an idea for another post!

[T45]

There is BG for the gas tank and also a kit that includes induction cleaning as well. It's used at shops and most charge around $100. If your intake/valves are dirty it will clean them better than any other product.

But like I said, seafoam works, just don't dump it in straight for 10 minutes at a time while your buddy hammers the throttle. Use common sense, it washes all the dirt away....and the oil too! Same with BG but at least a trained professional does it for you with specialized equipment designed for it.

[cjrboy14]

Be careful with this stuff. Putting too much in too fast washes the oil from the cyl walls and will cause damage to your rings. BG44K is the best IMO, but seafoam has its purpose and works well when used correctly.

How would you get around that? Should I pour oil in after pouring seafoam in?

[T45]

There is no way around it if used incorrectly. Basically if you dump it in your brake booster vacuum line it goes into the intake, cleans it, good. Cleans your valves on the way down, good. Once in your cyl the explosion of normal combustion will burn it up. However if there is too much in the cyl it completely covers the walls of the cyl and like solvent in oil it degrades the oil to nothing, then the cyl burns it all, leaving a dry cyl. Your rings need lubrication or they will obviously burn up and seize in the piston.

I would surge it in, a little at a time. Let it burn off before dumping in more and allowing the oil to keep the cyl and piston/rings lubricated. This goes for anything dumped in the intake, carb cleaner, FI cleaner, etc. Oil additives and fuel additives are different. I don't believe in oil additives honestly unless you have a stuck lifter or something and just want to free it. If an oil additive is used I would just let the engine idle with it cycling for a while and then change oil. Unless you are talking about Lucas oil stabalizer, which a LOT of people believe in to quiet high mileage engines. It actually works very well.