Sea Foam

NikwoaC said:

That sounds pretty technical...

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snakebite01 said:

your car looks exactly like mine..

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O RLY?

i guess not..haha

nobody has the same two tone as me....nobody

Nobody has the same Rustoleum paintjob as me, so nyahhhh!

FWIW, the cheapest place I've seen for Seafoam around these parts is Wal-Mart - costs about $6 a can.

Darkwriter77 said:

Nobody has the same Rustoleum paintjob as me, so nyahhhh!

FWIW, the cheapest place I've seen for Seafoam around these parts is Wal-Mart - costs about $6 a can.

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Try as I might, I've never found Sea Foam at Wal Mart. Must be a regional thing.

Never seen Seafoam at Anal Mart.Advanced Auto has sold it here forever.It's $8.99 a can and $40 for the 1 Gallon.Both my v6 and 5.0 smoked like crazy.The 5.0 ran a lot smoother.It's gonna need it again because that car just sits in the driveway.Cant drive it

Here's a fun gag to pull.If you got a vac line running under your dash,put a Tee on it plus a short 1 foot piece.cap it off.Now....got a Ricer at night riding your ass with his blue light special on? Suck some Seafoam in and watch the fun begin.......

That's odd. Yeah, must be a regional thing. Here, the have a whole bunch of it on display on a four-way in the center of the main aisle leading by the automotive department.

I have my own method for seafoaming an engine.

First of all I pick up at Wal-Mart a can of the thing + a cheap sprayer and a gallon of distilled water.
Second I take the car to an empty parking lot where I can put up a smoke show without ticking off the entire neighborhood.
Third I fill the sprayer with seafoam and start the car. At this point I remove the intake tube to the throttle carefully feeding gas manually as the engine will bog down if you don't. Spray the thing generously in the throttle paying attention not to stall the car. Seafoam works best when you cycle it as far up as you can on the intake side. This is paticularly useful because you will also clean your throttle, and the intake tract/manifold of blowby in addition to your combustion chamber. It is also important to do this as the intake is a neutral point that distributes air to all cylinders EVENLY meaning they will all get cleaned not just those closest to the brakebooster vacuum source.
Fourth step is to feed some remaining seafoam into the PCV valve to help clean the thing if it is possible.
At this point I would let the car sit for a while (up to 30 minutes) to give seafoam the time to soak in and do its work. Take a break to fill the sprayer with ditilled water. After the break reconnect your intake tube (but don't tighten as you will need to take it off again) and start the car. Give it some revs and watch the smoke show. After a few minutes of good smoke pop the intake off while the car is running and begin to spray the distilled water into the throttle and proceed to rev the car while misting the whole thing until all gone. Reconnect the tube and go have fun with the car.

While it may sound like a crazy idea to put water into the intake many racing teams have used water injection for years on highly boosted engines. The first company to do this was Volvo in the 80s with their 242T touring cars. The theory is that a little bit of water (hence why you should use a sprayer and not dump the bottle in) vaporizes in the combustion chamber effectively lowering intake to combustion chamber temperatures effectively reducing detonation. A side effect they found was that their engines were much cleaner of carbon and oil deposits then most other teams who were not running the setup so in our case we would be cleaning more effectively as we are using first seafoam (solvent) as a soap and then the distilled water as pressurized steam cleaning. I have had nothing but positive results from this.

SteedaGT9150 said:

nobody has the same two tone as me....nobody

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did you do yours custom???

snakebite01 said:

did you do yours custom???

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just had the bottom color painted a little different, nothing tooo custom. my brother calls it the Cooks mobile because it looks like a bottle of cooks champange

its the best $6 youll spend btw
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SteedaGT9150 said:

just had the bottom color painted a little different, nothing tooo custom. my brother calls it the Cooks mobile because it looks like a bottle of cooks champange

its the best $6 youll spend btw
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lol it does..