Just ran like a 1/2 gallon of straight water through the intake. Seemed to suck it down pretty easily. Afterwards lots of black oil splatter residue on the driveway behind the flame thrower. Just wondering whats the opinion on it is. Is it necessary to do every quarter once a year or with every oil change. Is it that beneficial to the longevity of the motor or am I just pissing in the wind. Thanks.

 

I hear that a good whole can/bottle of seafoam is great to add to a tank and run it through. You can also spray it in through vacuum source. Just what I have heard though. That black splatter may have not been oil residue though... it could have been the carbon that was "steam cleaned" out of the engine.

 

The best is just seafoam through a main vac. source.

 

water down the intake? is this some crazy rotary **** that i dont know about? water in a piston engine DESTROYS it. does it not hurt rotors and housings?

 

You can do it in V8's. as long as you don't give a lot all at once.
when I lived in Alaska, a lot of people use to do it once a year to get the carbon out. we would get turns running are cars down the airport runway.

 

Ok so im new to ther rotary scene as far as little engine tricks and the whatnot to help keep the engine running but i gotta ask............... What the **** are you bitches babbling about?

 

Does this also help revitalize the apex seals also. i have seen people use Automatic tranny fluid as well but you put it in through the spark plug holes and let it sit for a night. just wondering.

 

There is a lot of talk about this in the generation specific forums. Some people swear by it, and others are highly against it. Idea is that the water goes to steam and swipes away all the carbon from the engine, cleaning it. ATF makes the seals "swell", helping compression (to start a tired motor). Water injection is different.

I've never done it, and probably won't do it on my engine. I figured if I did something to clean the carbon while running, I will cause more damage than good, since the carbon can flake off in decent sized particles, causeing seals to stick or crap in the turbo, ect... Now, if you start doing this from day 1 on a newly cleaned rebuild, I can see myself doing this routinly.

Bottom line, I've never heard of this causing an engine to die. So, good luck to you if you try it.

 

yeah i have tried the infamous "water trick " before, however on my motor the results were bad, note it was a "blown motor" anyway and thats probagbly why it messed up.

i ended up with chocolate milk for oil ( water in the oil), motor was allready running on 1 rotor however, and it turns out i had jammed down side seals and corner seals, and that was letting the water by into the oil i belive, and since it wasnt making compression it wasnt firing enuf to flash it to steam fast enough.