In the last week I have se foamed 5 cars


CAR RESULT

97 prelude 280 000kms faster, smoother, cleaner
01 CL 104 000kms cleaner, smoother, better sound
94 Integra 270 000kms faster, cleaner, smoother
03 Mustang GT 115 000kms Smother, Cleaner
07 Cobalt SS 81000kms FASTER... INCREASED BOOST PRESSURE BY 4PSI now the cobalt holds 14psi no problem and doesn't burn oil.


BEST RESULTS were on my buddy's 07 cobalt SS and he was fucking amazed that 1/3 of a can could make his car haul ASS like that.


When i say "faster" that mean you can FEEL the difference....not just halucination

 

Is it easy to do ?

 

Increased boost presure by 4psi,Really ?

If that was true,you would be able to sell those can's at the 1/4mile track on a import night and make $100 a can.

 

Some kinda general maintenance must have been missed to gain that much back. At 50k miles you shouldn't be hurting that bad unless he hasn't taken good care of it.

 

He must of retuned the car after the seafoam since it was most likely out of tune to begin with to get the 4psi back.And put the credit where it didnt belong.
If you lost 4psi you are not going to get it back using seafoam.

 

what can go wrong????.. is there a DIY for this?

 

Air leaks in hoses,and bad wastegates can cause loss of psi.I just dont think seafoam is going to bring back 4psi of lost preasure.
Please boosted guys chime in. Is this possible?

 

What is this seafoam u guys speak of and how does go about using it??? Sorry I'm nt realy a tech guy

 

There is a DIY on the TL side. Do a search for it.

either google seafoam and read about it on their website or search for seafoam on here. Theres a ton of infomation about on the CL and TL side.

 

Defective gauge?

 

no guys straight up my buddy has had this car since it was new and it ran like crap since the last like 40000kms and when I sea foamed it... (I did it through the supercharger right after the throttle body AFTER the MAF sensor) And it only took like 1/4 of a can and then died and then he went for a drive, and white shit blasted out of the car, and when he got back to my driveway he was happy as a kid at a candy shop ranting about how his car's boost is way higher than before.

I am NOT SHITTING YOU. and his gauges work FINE. and i don't care if anyone believes me, I'm just telling you what happened.

Car holds 4 psi more boost, and runs WAY BETTER. Not saying this will happen to every car, but all i'm saying is his car was fucked up and sea foam made everything RIGHT.

Easy as HELL to do.!!! suck up 1/4 to 1/2 a can though the manifold SLOWLY.. over the course of 2 mins. and make sure engine is warmed up. Then turn car off after 1/2 a can is used up and wait 2 mins. then start car up.

IT WILL BE A ROUGH start!. then white shit comes out, then go for a "beat up ur car run" and it'll be GOOD AS HELL.

 

JUST TO CLARIFY

it didn't GAIN BOOST, it restored boost pressure. 4psi had been missing for over a year!!! and sea foam clean the shit right up

 

so my car is at about 77k miles right now, and I'm not the original owner. Is there any way I would know if the first owner used seafoam, and if he didn't, should I wait maybe until I get closer to maybe around 90k miles before I use seafoam?

 

chances are they probably didnt. It wouldnt hurt to do it, i dont think you can over do it.

 

yea I did 3/4 of a sea foam can at once through the motor on the mustang and it was fine.

I got the least results from my Acura CL though, cause i take so good care of it! And I use shell v power which cleans the carbon from the valves and other places that accumulate crud.

It did however make my car sound deeper on the first HARD rev i gave her. As if something broke loose and flew out the exhaust and then instantly I could relate the groan to a g35 if you can believe it. And NO i don't have an exhaust leak, I've been there so i know the tale. LOL

I noticed my cl would stall when doing it so i had to throttle it a bit from the tb. Minimal white smoke cam out. least i've seen of all the 5 cars i did. Some cars will just stuble and keep going, others you gotta feather the throttle so it doesn't die.

From my experience mileage is a huge factor for how much crap will fly out the tale pipe.

If you do NOT use premium fuel. I would even MORESO recommend it since your combustion process will be less clean, therefore you'll have more crap to get rid of.

I have not used sea foam in any other way, only through the manifold to the cylinders. And the results are always EVIDENT!

 

Oh, alright. I'll do it when I get a chance.... and also, I saw the last Seafoam thread, someone posted videos and it coughs out a ton of white smoke. Would it be a bit safer to do it somewhere in the country-side area?

 

Rapture.... sea foam ur car today.. make sure u do it when the motor is already warm. suck up about 1/2 a can over 1-2 mins and then stall the engine or turn it off. for 2 MINUTES...

the instructions say 5 mins but I do 2 MINUTES cause it's really hard to start the motor sometimes and the longer you wait the harder it'll be to start her up.

you start it up and it'll be rough rpms so rev the car to 2-3 grand easily and the rpms will level out and everything will smoothen out.

Then go for a drive and beat it up (so all the crap burns off with the speeding exhaust gases). And I guarantee your ride will be better. In sound, speed, smoothness.

You only respect this sea foam shyt once it's worked for you. Then you will live and die by this stuff.

 

i wouldnt use seafoam in a car with a turbo.

not unless u dont like your FM

 

I sea foamed my mr2 turbo before and i didn't notice any difference maybe just a little smoother but the engine only had about 30000 miles

 

like i said... higher mileage car will see better results..

I ask all of you reading this thread to TRY sea foam and then tell me I am full of shit... PLEASE AND THANK YOU

 

we arent denying the results of seafoam, only the one for the turbo

i'd done seafoam personally on my car at 100k

 

^ x2

 

ive tried seafoam.
youre full of shit.

its a placebo effect. ive actually done tests. nothing was cleaner in my engine tear down that was done 500 miles after a seafoam treatment. shit looked the same as the 118k engine i got from the junkyard.

youre also pretty fucking defensive lately. think you should chill out with the attitude. you sharted up a good thread about the manifod and here you go again.

 

Yeah did it to my CL idles so much better right now!

 

Phee you're just mad cause you screwed it up on ur car.

It worked and works for many people... and all those car i have listed are my friend's and they all attest to the results.

I was gonna cuss you out for say i'm full of it. but I really couldn't care less what anyone thinks. ESPECIALLY YOU. :-)

LOL you're telling me how to act to? You're not a MOD, and ur not my mom.

P.S 4.7 in a CL WITHOUT BOOST AND OR NOS.... PHAT CHANCE

 

Would you like me to sea foam a car on video to PROVE it makes the car run better?

Cause I love to Prove I aint talking B.S

 

I got a buddy with a 1994 d16 civic with 270000kms roughly.

And I'll bet it'll make a noticeable difference.

Phee if you didn't see A LOT of white smoke blasting out the exhaust for at least 1-2 minutes (which you probably didn't), then your car didn't have a lot of crud in it so there's not much sea foam could do. I'm sure you did do it right, it's just every car reacts differently. If you did it on a car that clearly had issues. I bet even you would agree it makes a difference. Whether it's minimal or significant is all one's perspective though.

The reason why I like this stuff so much is because of the following:

My brother's prelude had a CLOUD of white smoke for 5 MINUTES. he's got just over 270000kms and he burns oil and is modded quite a bit. It made the car idle steady (which it hadn't done since he added the Skunk 2 manifold). and now you cannot see black shit blasting out his tail pipe when he's at 3-4000rpms... only when he's at 6-7 lol

So to me that means sea foam worked

 

I believe you that seafoam will make a old car with idling/hesitation issues run beter.There for may seem like it has little found power.
Far as the turbo being able to resurect 4psi of lost power

.Nah,nope,no way,and whatever word you can come up with for "NO".
If you willing to drive to do some seafoam vid,I dont have a problem with you riding over here to do some free labor.
Wait,your the guy that always has a problem with you cl,right?
And didn't you think seafoam gave you a error code before?
No seafoam for me,and no free labor.It probally wouldn't be worth the time of having to go back over and fix your error's.

 

yes, it gave me a misfire error code cause for the 1-2mins i was sucking up the sea foam the entire time i was feathering the throttle body so the car wouldn't die. Man did it want to stall !

I pulled the 7.5 amp fuse and that instantly cleared everything. no biggie. I'll admit i was not happy when it made the light come on. But... it is just a light lol.

I wanted to make sure my car was in good condition, so I did it on mine. Yea sure there was not result other than exhaust note change. But I treat it reallll good and it's only got 62k miles. And I use shell v power which is the cleanest burning gas out there.

That's why the other cars had results that you couldn't deny. No premium gas and way more mileage.

Some cars just eat it right up and don't stumble till the end when you put a lot in to stall the motor, or you turn the motor off at that point if it won't stall.

I say do it it can't hurt.

I made this thread so people that doubt it will try it and know it's not going to hurt their car and can only help.

Why not try it

 

i know how to do seafoam. if u look into the original threads i was the contributor. i know how its supposed to be done. im talking experience here. not seat of the pants feelings.

remind me again how many engine teardowns you have done.
im far from mad, trust me.

but go on talking about how seafoam changed your friends car and restored lost compression. thats amazing! ZOMG!!! WHY BUY A BOOST CONTROLLER!?!?!?!

the fact that your friend was low 4psi for a year and didnt do anything about it shows how much you guys know abotu maintaning a car.

 

ive also done it on the corolla that i had with 375000 miles on it. i wanted to believe i felt a difference, but i honestly couldnt.

after my teardown ive concluded that it doesnt do what it promises. might help injectors but it definitely wont bring back 4 pounds of boost.

 

I did it on my 04 with 44K miles on it...whether it was just perceived or actual it was well worth the $8 I spent on the can in my eyes.

I'm surprised 01tl04 (sp?) hasn't chimed in yet.

 

that was the first time I had touched or gone under the hood of his car. I haven't even been in it. We just talk here and there.

I'm just going off what buddy told me. I dunno why he would lie

 

i'll admit i know jack shit about forced induction components.

And have only done one engine tear down.

But it must be possible some how he's restored his boost. Cause I put it in through the supercharger manifold and it's a petroleum product that burns hot and is naturally a cleaner so couldn't it have cleaned something like a BOV or something.... Say it wasn't sealing before completely??

Cause he'd been complaining that his car was slow for a while... and that's what brought up the sea foam Idea. for his car at least. Then he goes for a drive and comes back ranting and raving about his car and how "ITS BACK, ITS BACK" he kept saying.... hahah

anyways... that's the story, and all I can do is believe it or not.. and regardless of what should be the "truth". I see no reason for him to lie about it.

 

i have 230k KM on my CL. FWIW, i'll give this a try

 

Not a single mention of changing out the spark plugs after doing this...

 

Or the oil

 

Tom is mostly on the TL side now.

Seafoam says it wont foul the plugs. Now if you seafoamed at 100k for the first time like I did, it might have dirtied the plugs. Thats why im changing them out at my 105k.

no need to change the oil unless you put seafoam in there. If you do, you must change the oil out within a few miles.

 

Just did this for the first time after reading this thread. My car has 110k miles and I've owned it since it had 65k. I have no idea if the previous owner did this. Honestly, I followed the TL DIY to the T and I saw practically no smoke. I feel the slightest bit smoother idle and kind of hear the super objective "deeper tone". I'm not complaining cuz it was $7, but it either pays off to use supreme gas and regular oil changes or this process is WAAYYY overhyped. Anyway, at least I know now. Maybe I'll try it on my parents' cars with 150k miles and see what happens.

 

^^^^ ur car was taken good care of dude..

the way i see it. If sea foam doesn't do much.. that's probably a good tell tale that ur ride is in good condition.

Mine i noticed barely any change too. So mine is mint also.

At least you now know where you stand for 8$