Seafoam suggestions?

[sapper12b]

I am about to seafoam my 1G this weekend. Any last minute suggestions.

 

[Leonthefaded]

Be careful and follow the instructions. Do a search on the forums and don't follow past mistakes of others.

 

[poppasmerph]

youtube some vids also...

Be sure to SLOWLY pour (or suck in) the stuff through a vacuum hose and be ready for plenty of smoke to come out of the tail pipe.

 

[mattiouti]

keep the rpms up as well. Turn a/c off.

 

[CSFX8588]

+1 be careful. Hydrolock is muy mal.

 

[WOTDSM]

About 200 miles after seafoaming my car my plugs fouled. Not sure if it was just from the seafoam as my valve seals were also bad but it wouldn't hurt to change the plugs afterwards especially since they will be SUPER ashy.

 

[Bud92gsx]

Get err done.

 

[99OZDSM]

Whenever I did my car, I changed the plugs and oil afterwards.

 

[Bud92gsx]

Whenever I did my car, I changed the plugs and oil afterwards.

Me too.Write that down.

 

[Dsmkauai]

Question to o.p. how many miles on your car? The only reason I ask is seafoaming a high mileage engine for the first time might loosen alot of gunk in the motor and could do more harm than good. I personally love seafoam and have used it for forever, I even know and went to school with the owners son. I even contribute making it to 240k miles on my stock motor to seafoam! I use it in every car I have even my lawn mower and weed wacker. It's just something to think about before you do it, because we don't need another post on here saying seafoam killed my engine. If your car is higher mileage I would first do a compression test then do half the recommend amount of seafoam. Then do another test and see if your numbers have changed any, if no major change. What till right before your next oil change and do a full amount recommend drive for 50 or so miles and change oil and you should be all good after that. Then after that right before changing oil get one can, pour half in the gas tank and half in the oil then what's left in the bottom of the can suck into a vac line and repeat before each oil change after that. Atleast that's what I do and it works great for me.

 

[sapper12b]

Thanks everyone i have read alot about it. I was omly planning on doing 1/3 pint in the vacuum hose. Change oil shortly after. The car has 180k exactly, snapped a timing belt a couple weeks ago, had the head rebuilt, all new valves, stems, seals, all new timing componants, new exhaust mani, new 16g turbo, new water pump. Compression test was great.

 

[clipto]

Any particular reason why your seafoaming besides the fun smoke show?

 

[Dsmkauai]

Well the whole point of seafoam is to keep things clean in the engine and fuel system so id guess that's his reason.

 

[clipto]

Well the whole point of seafoam is to keep things clean in the engine and fuel system so id guess that's his reason.

Is true but there there might be a side effect he does drive a 90 eclipse idk how many miles on the motor, maybe the sludge is keeping it together. It's just that I have seen it go south on some people I just wanna make sure he don't blow anything up you know. I do like seafoam it works good but e85 is my new seafoam now . Just better safe then sorry ya feel me?

 

[Dsmkauai]

Ya that's what I said in my first post to the o.p. bro!!

 

[bkiel]

How many miles between seafoaming would be the best bang for the buck?

 

[DSM1G90]

Throw the junk away. Motors never need that stuff. They run fine without any of that nonsense additives.

 

[clipto]

Throw the junk away. Motors never need that stuff. They run fine without any of that nonsense additives.

+1 additives are additives, just keep on your regular manufacturer maintenance like the car is sapose to without adding all this crap that makes you think better about yourself it should run just fine.

 

[Dsmkauai]

Later ill post a pic of the head of my dd gst and the head off my parts gst and you will see why seafoam isn't such a bad idea, both cars have over 200k.

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

Thanks everyone i have read alot about it. I was omly planning on doing 1/3 pint in the vacuum hose. Change oil shortly after. The car has 180k exactly, snapped a timing belt a couple weeks ago, had the head rebuilt, all new valves, stems, seals, all new timing componants, new exhaust mani, new 16g turbo, new water pump. Compression test was great.

Why are you sea foaming if you have all valves and had a head done recently! The only think its going to clean is the fuel injectors and possibly filter! Other then that I see no point in doing it

 

[boost97gst]

Later ill post a pic of the head of my dd gst and the head off my parts gst and you will see why seafoam isn't such a bad idea, both cars have over 200k.

exactly, Seafoam isnt one of those BS additives guys, It really works. Just dont get stupid with it or over use it. In the op's case, you def wouldnt hurt runnin a little thru the gas tank to clean the injectors out. Or if the pistons are old, it WILL remove tons of carbon deposits on there and WILL run better after. Seafoam is the shit. Proven time and again to work

 

[DSM1G90]

Carbon buildup ?
You guys like to run your systems rich or something?

A proper tune with correct temp plugs (you want tan to white porcelain around the electrodes and not any soot black) and with the right A/F ratios should prevent such buildup since you don't drive slow and lug the motor down at slow speeds in high gear...and don't have to worry on carbon buildup with automatic trannies.

"Great Aunt Ethel" driving her "Caddy" in town all the time never reaching 35mph are the vehicles in dire need of Seafoam with them never reaching highway speeds, or "Walt, the Farmer" driving his '67 FORD F-100 with a manual and lugging that motor down so hard due to low shift points and that motor is also crying for a Seafoam treatment ... with both examples of being all full of carbon

("CRUD!" -I would take Ethel's Caddy, drive it out to the freeway, lock the Caddy in 2nd gear and wind that thing up to almost 80mph to blow out the carbon and leave a carbon black smokescreen for miles behind that vehicle, and Walt's truck - same thing: get on the freeway, shove it in 3rd, wind that motor up close to redline on a very hard WOT acceleration and you can easily bet that I'd leave a huge black smokescreen for miles behind that FORD with all of the carbon blown out ... and those two vehicles would run tonnage better after a hard WOT run like that...) !

Pull the plugs and shine a flashlight down the bore. Top of the pistons should be a gray, not carbon black with buildup (which also raises compression and causes knocking issues ... and your system wants to retard spark to reduce knock due to the signals from the knock sensor.. which, then increases more carbon buildup due to a late spark)

Let's cure the problem of the carbon buildup issue instead of putting a "band-aid" on the problem called SeaFoam and saying that "it's fixed".

This should be your goal.

Good luck all - DSM

 

[Dsmkauai]

And that might be true if you are the first and only owner of your dsm right off the show room floor. But in reality which is 99% of the tuners on here we are the 3,4,5,6, 20th owners of the car, so who's to say the guy or gal before you took that good of care of the car and had a 100% perfect tune the whole time to eliminate the chances of build up. Just saying if done right the $8 can of seafoam can help to keep things running smooth and clean in the engine, vac system and fuel system. So why wouldn't you want to take the small extra step to add possibly a few more years and even better gas mileage to your dizzum or any car, lawn mower, weed wacker, boat motor, any motor!!!

 

[screamingdemon]

I haven't sea foamed my Talon yet, but I did however seafoam my dads 1987 Jeep Wrangler 4.2 with 109k miles (in fuel, crank, and vacuum line). It made a HUGE difference in responsiveness and overall power. I use to call BS on Seafoam but not anymore.

 

[sapper12b]

I just wanted to clean out any extra junk in there. I have a slight miss in my idle, could be due to dirty throttle body which i am cleaning 1st, and the infamous hot start crap.