Atf is supposed to break down carbon in your engine and help improve compression, but a lot of people think its bad for your engine because it's corrosive. If you sprayed water into your intake while running, wouldn't that have the same effect? I hear that cars running water injection always have really clean engines. Plus, water offers no theat to the engine, the worst you could do is stall it if you put too much in.
If that does work, is it allright to spray it right into the afm? It's not like you can pull off the intake hose and spray into the TB.
Let me know what you guys think. Seems to me that if it does work, it's a safer, and less polluting way of doing it.

 

Spraying water into the engine while its running causes it to turn into steam, pretty much steam cleaning the internals.

How I would do it, start the car let it warm up. Get to full op. temp. Pull off the boost sensor vac line, stick that in a jug of water (a gallon). Hold revs at about 3 or 4k until the water is all sucked up. Reconnect vac line and go drive

 

MMO is good too.

Jarrett

 

I second drox's suggestion...works great.

 

I've used atf about 3 times...MMO has sat in my engine anytime its been down for more than a couple days being worked on. They all work...

 

I MMO'ed my engine a while ago.
After pulling apart my friend's 13b, I saw all the carbon all over the rotor faces, and I'd love to get that out of my engine. I've seen what a blown head gasket does for cleaning a piston, makes it look like it just came off the assembly line.
Plus, if you pour water into the intake, you just get a bunch of steam, not a giant oil cloud that gets the fire dept called.

 

Check this out. ATF becomes corrosive when it is exposed to heat. I take this to mean that when you just use it for the ATF trick in a cold engine you do not need to worry about it eating your seals...

http://www.the-oilman.com/products/a...r-Solvin-45016

 

drOx--

so you have done this safely? I was gonna try the ATF trick until I read this....I don't think I could pull off all that smoke without trouble from the neighbors!!

thanks!!

 

oh, and dr0x, where should I put that water if I don't have a boost sensor (it's an N/A)?

 

NA's have a boost sensor too. It's onh the passenger friont strut tower. The rectangular box thingy.

 

The one in the turbo cars isnt even called a boost sensor, its called an Atmospheric Pressure sensor.

Jarrett

 

J-Rat if you want to get technical about it

And yes steaming the engine works fine. Just dont let the car die.

 

could this possibly help compression to steam it?

 

Perhaps. You are cleaning a lot of **** out of the motor and some carbon might be making a seal stick slightly. You never know until you try it