Seafoaming my Talon (Video)

[thearkatek]

Not quite as smokey as I was hoping...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG3-D0RuBCM[/ame]

 

[thearkatek]

ya 200,000KM.

 

[thearkatek]

I have seen absolutley no difference in the way my car works - good or bad.

 

[T is for TURBO]

^^^^X2 I have seen this cause a lot of issues.

Such as?

 

[boost97gst]

^^^^X2 I have seen this cause a lot of issues.

ahem, ahem BULLSHIT cough cough

 

[Archer Fabrications]

Ive only got 12k miles on my motor but i bet there is a fair but of carbon build up from running rich during tuning, compression actually raised from when it was tested originally at 0 miles. And after break in. I was going to just spray a little methanol in . Ive been sketched out by seafoam.... No reason in particular. Just would rather not .

Edit: asked my builder, says soak the pistons over night, vac
Out anything, drain oil, put in cheap non detergent IDLE ONLY for one heat cycle, dump the oil, fill it with your regular oil, change filter, good to go.

Dont do it manually (through break booster or intake system) unless you habe a way to measure it like a methanol injection, because you can risk hydrolock.

 

[Calan]

Dont do it manually (through break booster or intake system) unless you habe a way to measure it like a methanol injection, because you can risk hydrolock.

In 30+ years of being around and working on cars, I can't recall one single instance of hydrolock actually happening, for any reason. In fact, I don't recall it even being mentioned as a real threat until the internet was born and rampant BS took over the world.

I have however, used Seafoam on more cars than I can remember without any fancy metering devices, and have never had a single issue.

Just sayin' is all.

(I'd love to see someone actually cause a hydrolocked condition on purpose...even with an entire can of Seafoam.)

 

[2slow4now]

My dad saw hydralock once with oil in an engine. They had a part time worker to help out at his job and they figured the kid should know how to change oil so they gave him that task. The dumb azz filled the engine to the top of the valve cover. They had no idea he had done it and couldn't figure out why the car didn't want to turn over and the seals all started leaking. Dad figured it out when he saw all the quart bottles in the garage trash.

Another story is an old dude I worked with used to work for a ford dealership way back in the day before our cars were even thought of. He would warm up a car running rough because of carbon build up and rev it up with one hand and trickle water out of a coke bottle to "steam clean the engine". He said just keep it reved up and it will be fine. Blew all kinds of gunk out but he never locked one up.
So hydralock? It would almost have to be intentional. Your probably in more danger of fouling out a plug, having higher compression, and blowing a head gasket than locking up the engine.

 

[Archer Fabrications]

Jus relaying what i was told, i said it risks it, but what do i know, ive neer seafoamed my gsx before.