Question: why were you banned for a week? Just out of curiosity?. I was about to remove my UIM & TB (boost leak), I coud have taken pics, unfortunately, i have a turbo,so they wouldnt help much... I also have a N/A completely disassembled ast my moms, but too far to drive just for a pic.....

i figured it out.

reason i was banned was because i wasnt allowed to talk to rx7girl. i guess only the people with those privilages are the people running this web site. they said they were editing the thread for unnecessary post and off topic chat but for some odd reason it seems they were only editing that certain thread. so they delete all my post even though i had a specific question for her about her mod on that specific topic. and yeah i might get banned for another week for saying this but WTF... GET OFF HER NUTTS

I did the water trick in lab the other day at school( i go to tech school) I took a water bottle, and pulled a vaccum line right above the LIM on the UIM facing the strut. Let someone sit in the car and rev to about 3k, then let the line drink up all the water, Refill and repeat =D works well, you can see white smoke from the exhaust instantly (steam) then after a few min of idling, the smoke turned grey (carbon)...dont be alarmed if your car keeps smokeing for a while...after about a day of boosting around town, mine stoped. And be sure to let your car get hot before hand.

yeah darksider somethings go like that but hey

Can Someone perform step by steps with taking pictures? Dude, if you mess it up with any line in engine with it, it will have a major damage to the engine... dude...

Probably going to do this soon. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow after I change my oil. We'll see. I'll post results if I do.


Chris

so is this some sort of steam cleaning procedure? what would prompt you to do this?

Justin

Think of it like steam cleaning the internals

its not a bad idea to do it every now and then to keep carbon from building up too much.

I like seafoam

so do u leave 1 end of the hose connected to the UIM and the other inside the water bottle 2 drink up all the water?

I talked to one of my intructors who is a rotorhead and i guess you can do the same thing with atf??...

was that replying to my question?

the vac is hella easy to find, i cant believe i couldnt find it from ICEMARKS description. inbetween the intake man/throttle body and the firewall, there are 3 vac lines that line up with eachother vertically. unplug the one from the bottom that has a vac nipple/pipe attachment comming out from the intake man/throttle body and attach a longer vac line to stick in the water bottle.

i think i did it wrong though becasue i was revving 5ks all the way through.

nope i din't think so. but to answer you. yes you hook up the vacuum hoseand lstick the other end in your bottle and let it drink.

Ryosuke

Helps remove carbon deposits from the rotors and seal grooves. In my opinion it's a waste of time and something to do only if you are very bored or excessive carbon buildup is actually causing problems (in which case you likely have another problem somewhere else like an overly rich fuel mixture).

Well as you know I am running overly rich. I did the seafoam yesterday. I followed icemarks instructions and used the seafoam first. It smoked a whole whole lot. I then used about a half gallon of distilled water which it didn't smoke hardly any at all. I figured the seafoam had cleaned most of it out if that were the case. I used a second can of seafoam and it smoked like hell again. Then ran a slight amount of water thru it. All this after an oil change. I then took all my plugs out and cleaned them, I found out that I was running 9's all the way around instead of 2 7's and 2 9's. So I swapped the L out with 7's. I took the car out and drove it around for a little while. The first time I gave it a little bit of boost(3psi) around 3k it hesitated like a hell so I let off and I got back on it and it let out a huge cloud of smoke as I was driving down the road. It seemed like it just had to push a little more to get past 3 but then it cleared up and drove like normal. I guess it was just excess burning off. The car seems to run much smoother now. After I did the seafoam and took the plugs out they were still black so I cleaned them off with a wire brush. Either way I'm probably gonna do a treatment with each oil change just to be on the safe side until I can get a FPR. Thanks for the help Aaron


Chris

Aaron??? what?! huh?! naw just kidding, he is a genius... by the way Aaron, did you get that grounding thread together yet?

seafoam is damn expensive to suck through your engine so fast... why not add some "cuts grease on contact" dish soap to the water... or better yet, use straight up simple green or formula 88

and then, if you're still bored, start making concoctions of what you think makes the most smoke when burned and see who can make the largest, darkest, meanest smoke cloud and post pics lol

Because seafoam is the shit

water is cheaper :D

Dude, Seafoam is not that expensive.

It's almost like a quartz of your engine oil. 5 bucks, man.

Well, just think that if you can skip one of three meals in a day, you can afford it.

Btw, I didn't realize that Spark Plug is 34 dollars with Denzo brand. Autozone and Pepboys don't have other brand... Oh Well...

-Ryousuke

Seafoam is expensive??? Now I know just how cheap FC owners are.