seafoam?

[shally2186]

hey guys,i searched but havent came up with anything for RB engines..would it be alright to use seafoam on my RB20DET? i dont want to screw anything up..ive always had a rough idle and was told that seafoam would help..

thanks

[Cameron]

i did seafoam on my KA today and it had rough idle before and now its gone. theres 4 techniques for 4 different fixes, if you just do the brake booster way, it shouldnt damage anything. it just finds all the gooey stuff like carbon, and stuff like that and attaches to it and eats it up. only thing is do not let the car die.

[Joe]

or pour too much in

be very careful, you are pouring liquid into your combustion chamber. thats how you can hydrolock an engine.

ive used seafoam with mixed results.

[Cameron]

yea, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS... i havent had any bad results from it. i do it the reccomended 5000 miles.

[shally2186]

i know on normal engines its alright to use but i didnt kno about a RB.i have a 1/4" hose that im connecting to my brake booster line.kamin,R u on the arizonadrift forums?

[Joe]

yea, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS... i havent had any bad results from it. i do it the reccomended 5000 miles.

you will build NO deposits in 5000 miles unless something is seriously wrong with your engine

dont bother to do it more than once a year.

i know on normal engines its alright to use but i didnt kno about a RB..kamin,R u on the arizonadrift forums?

the RB is an engine like any other. its no different

and no im not. i have a little bit of beef with the company that owns that website.

[shally2186]

i have a little bit of beef with the company that owns that website. [/QUOTE]

lol ic..well im in pa and im a member of that site..r they bad people? they were just saying that they need moe people on their forums.

[Joe]

no they arent bad people, there is just 1 person i do not particularly like. its not my place to say anything, i just am not a member and probably never will be.

if you really want to see whats going on in arizona, check out http://www.az240sx.org

we dont delete threads from our event section like azdrift does.

[shally2186]

im tryn to get all over and see what everyone has to bring to the drifting scene..im even on driftworks forums in U.K. the other day i had to explain to them what a douche bag is lol..i mainly love nico tho cause its all over the U.S.. i trust ur word on stuff kamin from ur posts in the past,and i am a proud owner of aqua teen seasons 1-5 and even the movie...i have a cousin in tucson AZ in the airforce but he knows nothing bout cars..im talkin too much....

[Cameron]

you will build NO deposits in 5000 miles unless something is seriously wrong with your engine

dont bother to do it more than once a year.

the RB is an engine like any other. its no different

and no im not. i have a little bit of beef with the company that owns that website.

well its basically twice a year. so thanks man.

[Joe]

im tryn to get all over and see what everyone has to bring to the drifting scene..im even on driftworks forums in U.K. the other day i had to explain to them what a douche bag is lol..i mainly love nico tho cause its all over the U.S.. i trust ur word on stuff kamin from ur posts in the past,and i am a proud owner of aqua teen seasons 1-5 and even the movie...i have a cousin in tucson AZ in the airforce but he knows nothing bout cars..im talkin too much....

hahahaha

well AZ is its own unique little world. we have some DAMN good drivers because they learned to drive on a track that has a 100mph entry and lets just say that corner makes men out of boys and kicks babies while doing it.

[Cameron]

kicking babies is always fun.

[shally2186]

lol i would love to have a go at that!!! im not the best at drifting but im getting better...idk what im goin to do when my RB is gone and i have a stock KA...im plan'n on doin a RB25 swap on the S14 that im gettin,so i might need u guys help every here and there..because of me tinker'n and this forums help,i was able to get my RB running pretty damn good..my buddy just got a CA18DET swap 240,so we went at it..from a roll i pulled like nothing..from a dead stop he stayed with me until i finally stopped spinning in 3rd then i pulled a good 15-20 cars on him..but what else would u expect...i just registered to the forum u suggested..id love to see that track u were talking bout

[ripracer]

Man florida is failing, wish we had track with 100 mph entry. Though it would probably make me **** myself the first time.

I have always just mixed seafoam in the gas. You can put it in your vacuum system?

[Cameron]

yessir, right down the break booster line into the engine.

[shally2186]

my buddy that told me to use it tole me to use half in the vacuum lines and dump the other half in my tank...i put the half in my tank already and im doin the vacuum lines w it tonight

[Cameron]

idk. the seafaom in the tank should be enough, cause i think that those 2 techniques do the same thing. its the Oil crankcase one that you would prolly do 1 regiment through the Vacuum and one through the Crankcase. Correct me if im wrong, no hard feelings.

[shally2186]

maybe ur right..but why not do both? im doin it in the gas tank to help clean my injectors and in the vacuum lines to help my idle control

[mott6904]

I used to work a company that serviced cars and we used it all the time. I used it on a saab that had the noisiest lifters ive ever heard and after 30 minutes of using it the noise was gone. You can use it 3 differnt ways: pour it in the oil and run it no more than a hundred miles(imo), Pour it in the gas tank and it will clean injectors but not the intake plenum, or suck in a vaccum hose and it will clean the plenum. It is the best 6.00 dollar fix out there.

[shally2186]

motto6904-my wife has a 95 talon TSI w the 4G63 engine in it..the car has a t04e 50 trim turbo witha whole slowboys setup..however once it recieved all the mods, the lifters started ticking..would this fix the ticking problem??? cause we were just goin to replace the lifters..

i just did the other half of the can in my vacuum line today..it smoked REALLY bad which i know is normal..but after everything was said and done,my car ran rough and sounded like a WRX..it happened to me b4 when i changed my spark plugs so i knew what to do..i reset my ECU and whhaa llaa, good as new..runs great!!! thanx for the info guys!

[DriftX]

I ran it in my sohc and it smoked a **** ton.. but after like a day of driving, it cleared up the low end performance drastically. My car had been sitting for a while so it broke up some debris stuck in the fuel line and/or injectors. I have never used it in my oil however.. that stuff is way too thin.. it would be same as running kerosene in it fora few minutes (which would strip anything off), but if lots of others use it successfully, by all means trust their judgement

[mott6904]

I cant say it is going to fix your problem, but for the price of lifters compare to a 6 buck bottle i would try it first. Worse case you are going to have to buy lifters but your oil passages will be cleaner and you'll have a less chance of this happening again. Instead of buying new ones, if the seafoam doesnt work, try bleeding the air first. If they pump up hard then put them back in. Like i said ive used in the oil on plenty of cars and it has worked awesome. Its fixed noisy lifters and cleaned plenty of oil level and pressure sensors

Dirft is correct it is basically the same as use kerosene.

[shally2186]

thanx for the replys guys..i will try seafoam'n it before we put the new lifters in...so i pour it in the oil and drive it for alil bit and then change the oil right???do i put like half a can?

[mott6904]

In your case i would suck some in the hose that goes to the iac valve and pour some in the gas tank. If you dump it in the oil it is only going to clean the lubrication system. Most of rought idle problems are either a vacuum leak, dirty iac valve or dirty injectors.

[shally2186]

i meant put it in the oil for the lifter ticking on my wife's car..for my RB i put it in the vacuum line and gas tank

[mott6904]

Yea my bad i normally put it in the oil and then let it idle for about 30 minutes and then take it out and drive all day and then change the oil unless the noise doesnt go away then a little longer. And for your rb dont forget the idle air control valve

[shally2186]

yea so i did it in my RB,.5 in the tank and .5 in the vac lines..it was running rough with no more smoke comin out of it..sounded like a WRX,i reset my ecu and it seemed fine..started it up yesterday and it sounded like a wrx again,and i tried reset'N the ecu many more times but it doesnt help..could my NGK iridium spark plugs not get along w the seafoam,cause i dont think it could mess up one of my coil packs or ignitor since it doesnt touch them...

[mott6904]

have never seen seafoam mess with any plugs. Did you take the car and blow out all of the carbon, or just let it idle. I could have broke loose a piece and plug a injector but ive never seen it. Check out the plugs and see what they look like. Then go through your basic diagnositics and see what cyclinder is missing out then let us know whats up. You might just need to blow it out pretty good. check the line you used to suck in the seafoam and see if it is messed up at all.

[shally2186]

so i replaced my plugs and now its runnin fine...my old ones were black,like REALLY black........i dont kno if maybe all that carbon maybe stuck on them or something but i needed new ones..i put a set of ngk copper ones in there..searched on which plugs would be best for my car and they were said to be a good plug for a RB20DET..however i had them in for like an hour and they are no good now..im goin back to the iridiums with a hotter 5 rather than the 6 that i had in there before...

[mott6904]

You went through a set of coppers allready. Normally rb20s love copper plugs. I you went throught a set in a hour then you have a problem.