zaridar

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if you have fuel injection you have to put it in your tank if you want it to clean your injectors...

seafoam is basically a fuel system cleaner. it can also be used to clean your crank case in a piston engine. there is no oil on the other side of the seals on a rotary like there is on a piston engine. depending on how you use it some seafoam can get past your rings into your oil. hence changing your oil. not the case on a rotary like said above. however if you use it in your oil you should definately change your oil soon after. also stated above.

seafoam is awesome stuff if used correctly. its people that blame seafoam for already existing problems that give it a bad name. i have heard the same thing about synthetic oils... (they make engines leak) no they don't if conventional oil was as lubricious and consistent in its particle sizes it would leak too.

ricerockettuner

so to go along with this i ask what exactly seafoam does when added to the fuel tank in a carbed car? just cleaning carbon and stuff off of the rotor faces and whatnot and getting all the junk out? my car runs perfect and my motto is if its not broke dont fix it but if it will add some benefit maybe i should add a can to the tank? also how ofted do ppl do the seafoam treatment to clean things up?

zaridar

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It will clean out your carb passages too... jets and what not.. nice interior btw!!!

Kentetsu

The biggest benefit in my opinion is cleaning the carbon out of the apex seal areas. This allows them to move freely as designed to do, increases compression, and results in increased horsepower.

I dump a can into the gas tank every month or so. Try it, you'll like it.

DriveFast7

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Gas Tank.

tookey bird

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kentetsu since i know you know alot what happens if you do put sea foam in your oil???

ricerockettuner

Alright... ill try it out. And thanks for the compliment. The interior was trashed when I bought it and everything is basically new now. Just need to swap the seats because I hate covers. I actually just paid only 200 dollars for a local shop to redo my ripped/destroyed door panels to look how I wanted them to. A lot cheaper/better than the used sets I had seen for sale

DriveFast7

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Seafoam is a solvent. It thins the oil out and cleans anything that oil touches. Since we don't have a valvetrain it doesn't help rotaries much when you put it in the oil. You don't want to drive for long or hard with that stuff in the oil as it reduces lubrication. We don't get oil sludge, but I don't know why.

I put a bottle of Seafoam in the crankcase of an Isuzu V6 and drove for a few minutes then idled for 15. Took oil cap off and peeked in there. Didn't clean all that well, but it did clean up some.

Amsoil Engine Flush is also much better at cleaning the internals. I use that with every oil change on my piston cars. Bought a case of the stuff. Engine runs smoother and quieter. Love it.
http://www.amsoil.com/storefront/flsh.aspx

Kentetsu

As the motor wears in (or out), small gaps are created at the seals and such. Those usually get filled in with buildup from the oil, so you never see any problems with it. When you add a cleaner to the oil, it cleans that buildup out of those seals and when you are finished cleaning up the oil system you are left with a motor that burns oil.

tookey bird

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kentetsu: from my understanding i thought that a rotary engine normaly does burn oil? are you saying that by adding sea foam to the oil that it will open up those gaps to burn more oil then normal??
im just curious because i thought adding sea foam to the oil really doesnt hurt anything so i added like a little to the oil when i sea foamed my whole car. and when i mean a little i mean like just a simple rotation of the hand once or a dab is what i would say..and in fact since ive done this my oil pressure has gone up a little but it was low to begin with anyway so i guess now its normal from what ive read what normal opperating pressures is.

Kentetsu

I was not referring to the OMP system at all. The wear points I was talking about would be the oil control rings.

And by burning oil I don't mean like the motor was intended to, but more like "smoking like a bitch". This is based on personal experience over the years, on piston motors. But I won't risk my motor by trying something like that, because I tend to run high mileage motors (last one died at 213,000 miles and current one has maybe 80,000 on it).

But I see that Drivefast7 has used cleaners succesfully, so who knows.