jz78817

it's very different from seafoam. This is what it contains:

Ingredient CAS Number Weight
Acetone 67-64-1 <5%
2-Butoxyethanol 111-76-2 10-15%
Ethylbenzene 100-41-4 10-15%
Methanol 67-56-1 <5%
Methyl Ethyl Ketone 78-93-3 <5%
Nonylphenol Ethoxylate 127087-87-0 15-20%
Xylene (mixed isomers) 1330-20-7 40-50%

many of those are already in pump gas. So if pump gas isn't cleaning the "burned on carbon" then I don't see that can o' stuff doing so either.

moosestang

You have to figure these ingredients are quite concentrated though, compared to how much is in 16 oz of gasoline. I may try some straight windshield washer fluid too, I bought it more for the tube that atomizes the mixture and sucks it in slowly.

Being supercharged, my car runs rich and not just at WOT, so carbon is going to build up.

jz78817

for the love of god, why? what makes you want to feed random crap into your engine?

moosestang

it's just methanol and water, they make kits to inject this stuff into your motor to raise the octane of the fuel charge.

That berryman is some corrosive ****.

Art161

I don't like to do any maintenance work either shortly before or during a trip. This has to do with anything, not just Sea-Foam. I wouldn't have the oil changed or the cooling system flushed or anything in the way of routine maintenance later than a couple of weeks before the start of a trip.

In the case of Sea-Foam, if you use it at all, IMO it should be while you are close to home. If your car is running okay, and you use quality gas, I don't know why you think you should use Sea-Foam.

Have a good trip.

Goldenpony

No thanks. I change my fully synthetic oil every 5K miles and along with that a can of Chevron Techron in the tank at every change. All I need.

moosestang

I'm surprised no one has done a simple before and after of these products by putting a $20 borescope video camera down a spark plug hole, I googled it, can't find anything. I'm doing it on Wed., so stay tuned. I all ready think seafoam will do nothing to remove the baked on carbon on top of my pistons and in the combustion chamber, so I won't bother testing it. I will do the berryman b-12 and probably plain old distilled water using the berryman tubing.

Ok, it's now $45, it was $20 something just two years ago and still works great.


My piston top 2 years ago. One of the cleaner looking ones.

drewsky

Keep me posted on the before and after with the piston tops. I'm curious to see this!!!

Nuke

OP, what is the reason you want to do both direct induction and fuel mix with SeaFoam? Unless you have a specific problem and you're simply looking to clean the fuel system, just run SeaFoam or Techron in the fuel system as directed on the bottles directions. I run Techron regularly in all of my vehicles as preventive maintenance at 10k miles or every oil change, whichever comes first. If I suspect an issue, I'll use SeaFoam. Regardless, there's no smoking and you'll never notice it on a cruise.

drewsky

No reason in particular. Just heading towards 85k and wanted a system cleaner. I run fuel injector/combustion chamber cleaner every other month or so. So it seems there really is no big difference between seafoam and that if your running it in your tank. Which I would. My real question was that if this stuff was superior to others when it comes to cleaning carbon build up. I've heard a lot of talk recently on this stuff so it's got me thinking.. Haha.