x2 :lol:

I felt it when I ran it through the carb. WHen I ran it through the tank I hardly felt anything...

Not saying your wrong ken :) But your motor had 10x the miles on it that mine does. Mine just passed 20k, so if I cleaned it once then there wouldn't be much to clean off a 2nd time since it is fairly new.

I have been waiting longer than usual this time around to go through the gas tank. I have been thinking of doing what OP has said but on a smaller scale (like 3 cans to 1/2 tank or something.

Ken, how can you say making a Sea Foam cloud is wasting the product? It's like a free fire works show! Try it, you'll like it, tons of fun and great for the engine. There's nothing like soaking you're seals in 100% Sea Foam.

This treatment fixed a low compression problem I was having due to leaking oil control seals in the White One. Well worth a few bucks of Sea Foam!

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I ran 2 cans in about 5 gallons of gas. Noticeable improvement. The tailpipe smelled terrible and smoked some at idle but no opaque cloud. Best to hit the freeway then fillerup.

thanks. I just brought back to life a 89 Volvo 2.3 turbo. It sat for 2-3 years and lucas injector cleaner didnt help much.

I'm actually on a new (used) motor that came to me with about 60k on it. The previous motor coughed up an apex seal at 213,000 miles. :)

And that cloud of smoke that comes from direct injection? Well, I view that as seafoam that has evaporated and then was pumped out the exhaust. I guess that's why I call it a waste, although there's no doubt that it still works that way. I just feel that you get a better cleaning with a more gradual distribution. I could be completely wrong though, thats just my feelings on it. :)

No you are exactly right Ken, what happens when you dump a bunch of sea foam into the rotors through the carb and soak them while spinning the engine once in awhile is that much if not most of the sea foam gets pumped into the header and exhaust. Then when you start the car, you get some immediate smoke from the residual sea foam in the rotors, followed a few minutes later by a huge amount of smoke as the sea foam in the exhaust system heats up and starts to burn. This huge cloud of smoke continues for several minutes until all the sea foam burns off, which is what gave me a chance to take the photos and video linked above.

I can't immagine that this kind of abuse would be good for cats or fuel injectors, but Nikki'd 12As with RB exhaust just love it.

Some call it waste, others call it cheap entertainment. But it saved me from rebuilding the 12A in my White One about 30,000 miles ago so I'm a big fan.

I added seafoam, didn't notice much but a choppy idle so far, I went on a abusive spin too.

How did you apply it? If just in the tank, you won't see too much that quickly from my experience. If its straight through a vaccum, its alot more notable expecially the worse the engine.

I added some into the carb and let it sit for a bit, also added a bit to the 2ndary barrels?

I also did this with premix a bit before and let it sit.

Started, revved after awhile.. another plume. It smoked for like 15 mins.

I'm bout to add the rest to the tank, just added a 1/2. I put one bottle in already and drove the piss out of it.

Seems to start quicker and rev smoother.

chopy idle is probably due to the fact that your car was possibly tuned while all that carbon was in there affecting it, so now that it's not there, you might have to re-tune it....just a thought.

If you could buy seafoam by the gallon it'd be really cool....

As it is, I have to go down to New York to get it because none of the local part stores here in Ottawa have it... and even then I just get the standard sized can.

Jon

the local advance auto sells it here by the gallon...it's like 50 some bucks

I've seen that too. The stuff dreams are made of :)

Hey Jon,

Any Napa, and Carquest store can get them in. If they don't have it on the shelf they can order it in for you.

Hi Everyone,

After reading here about this product, we decided to buy it in the US, import it to Spain and try it in some of the RX8 of the Spanish RX8 Club.

Last Friday we decided to put the product inside our SA22C and it is incredible!!!

The accelerator response is great, the punch from lower revs has increased, and even the idle is better (before we have observed some misfires running low on revs).

The way we used the product was the following;

1. Disconnect the Fuel Pump,
2. Disconnect the Fuel Lines in the Carb and start the car until the carb is out of fuel
3. Disconnect the Spark Wires
4. Drop SeaFoam directly into the barrels of the Carb (the small ones) while running the starter to put the Seafoam directly into the combustion chambers. (3/4 of a can)
5. Let the car standby one hour
6. Reconnect Pump, Lines and Sparks and start the car in the open air..... and watch the fireworks...

After that we have put the rest of the can in the tank with petrol, and run the car normally....

The results are great, during the first moments after starting you have a very irregular idle but after a few seconds the car runs great, and the more you use it the greater it gets....

Great product, Thank You all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will probably find that, unless the motor you are dealing with has sat for years, you will get the same results by simply adding it to the gas tank.

I dump a can in before every autocross event. It's like adding a small turbo except you don't get the lag...

Yes it does seem to be nice, added it to my bros 7 series bmw too haha, runs smoother. My fb took two cans, oddly I have this situation now when I hardly tap the throttle to start driving it'll sometimes stall... maybe it was too cold still though :S