My Adventures With Seafoam

[mkymonkey]

I will start with, this is the first time i have ever ever ever done this and i have to say...it was the easiest and freaking most awesomest thing you could do to a car! i mean wow! the car sounds throatier, deeper, its more responsive, and not to mention the show was incredible--by that i mean the smoke! but i have one tiny lil problem. ok well i bought two cans. one to use and the other to store for future use. ok the problem comes in when i was pouring the stuff in. it was great and easy to do it with the brake booster and when it turned off i went on to do the rest. well somewhere on here i read how to do it but didnt print out the thing when i did do it. well at the moment i was so excited that i didnt think that crankcase meant through the oil dip stick...instead i put it in the oil cap! you know the one on the valve cover? well i realized that it was not the same thing when i had already poured 1/3 of the bottle down the valve cover! so i thought to myself...well it couldnt hurt...i'm still adding it to the oil. so i open the other bottle and pour 1/3 of it into the actual crank case (of course the other 1/3 of the first bottle went into the gas tank). wait about 45 to 1hr and start the car up. it was a rough start just like it said in the instructions and i started reving! well it sounded great, felt great and i even had a crowd watching with the wtf look on their face. lol well about 10 mins into the reving the sound changed...like it uncloged something. sounded deeper and the smoke stopped. well later i went for a drive (i let the car sit for about 2 hours) and when driving it i noticed the changes stated above...BUT about 4k right when the secondaries open up...the car starts to backfire and the spedometer jump like 2k! but when it does that the sound does not change besides the backfire of course. it only does it like two times...you know two bop bops but in every gear. so what did i fuck up guys? im thinking that i have a leak in my exhaust because the backfire sounds come from the engine bay and not the back side. what im thinking is that the seafoam unclogged this leak and thats where the backfire is comming from...but then again a leak would sound completly different. it wouldnt backfire would it?

im going to change my oil in about 200 mi as well as my spark plugs, maybe that would help.

ANY SUGGESTIONS?

[Pico]

I've used seafoam a couple of times in my car but I havent used it in the crankcase yet, but from what I understand it thins out your engine oil.
Sorry can't help you out on why it's backfiring, but maybe the oil is too thinned out?

[ghettogeddy]

its posible that it uncloged a leak in your exaust but i dont see that causing it to drop power that much

[sunderland]

Based on Seafoam's suggested method of use, you didn't do anything wrong.

http://www.seafoamsales.com/motorTuneUpTechGas.htm

[mkymonkey]

well it does not say anything about putting it into the valve cover so....i dont know. and i do strongly believe that it freed up shit in my stock exhaust because i keep hearing the damn leak. well at least what i think sounds like a leak. it does this barapbarapbarapbarapbarap noise very softly at idle. you can barely hear it unless you really put your ear close to the engine and exhaust. this sucks. my car used to sound freaking nice and quite till i got on the throttle. now it sounds like the damn 17yr old machine that it is.

help!!!!!

[3gn86lxi]

What sound does it make again..........??

[thegreatdane]

lol it wont matter if you poor something either down the valve cover or down the oil dip stick hole it's unavoidably going to end up the same place.

[crazykamper]

where can i get this stuff?? i dont wanna do what u did to make it backfire, but i sure as hell wanna clear up crap in my engine and what not...

[FyreDaug]

You should not drive it with the seafoam in the engine... if its mixxed with the oil its cleaning out the shit in the crankcase, and you should pour it in a warm engine and let it IDLE for 10mins or so, then sit for about 10mins and drain the oil... I really wouldnt be drivign it with that in the oil

[crazykamper]

oh, wow. so where can i get this stuff? i wanna see what kinda crap i got in my engine! lol. i will have to get it sometime this week. (if its not that expensive)

so basically, i put it in, let idle, let sit, then drain oil, and oil change?

sounds easy! lol.

[cubert]

What sound does it make again..........??

[AZmike]

You should not drive it with the seafoam in the engine... if its mixxed with the oil its cleaning out the shit in the crankcase, and you should pour it in a warm engine and let it IDLE for 10mins or so, then sit for about 10mins and drain the oil... I really wouldnt be drivign it with that in the oil

Why not follow the intructions on the can instead?

[crazykamper]

lol ^ that works too. lol. where can i get this stuff? (nobody answered yet...) and how much is it?

[gfrg88]

lol ^ that works too. lol. where can i get this stuff? (nobody answered yet...) and how much is it?

just local auto parts store, theyre around $8-10 around here.

[crazykamper]

alright, not to bad, thanks!! i will probably go tomorrow when i get a chance!!

[mkymonkey]

i got it at autozone and paid 7.95 so it was cool. i also got the deep creep stuff.

[crazykamper]

whats the deep creep stuff?? what other crap do i have to get besides that stuff??? to clean out my engine?

[reanimator420]

post some pics of the smoke so we can see how smoky it is

[mkymonkey]

well it doesnt smoke anymore. the smoke was gone after the whole 10 mins of fumigating my neighborghood. anyway kamper the deep creep stuff is another seafoam product. it is used to spray inside the throttle body and inside the IM. let me get you the link where i read how to do all of this stuff. hold on a min

[mkymonkey]

well here is the link for the one i originally read. it doesnt mentio deep creep but it does tell you how to use it.

http://www.superhonda.com/tech/carbo...nt_how-to.html

edit. ok i found the one that mentions deep creep

http://members.nuvox.net/~on.roz/cars/z28/seafoam.html

[crazykamper]

wait, on the first link, step 6 says:
6. Do not use on motors with over 150k on them.

i have like 200k miles, is it still usable? or should i just forget about it?

[mkymonkey]

thats a lie....im ove 200 too..

[crazykamper]

oh. lol. aight. i will prob do it sometime mon or tues....

[mkymonkey]

ok so my freaking backfiring is not going away. i already changed the oil but i havent done the spark plugs yet so thats next...but i need to get paid first. and i dont know why but i still get a bit of smoke coming out of my car for the first few minutes after start up.

[crazykamper]

wow. lol. its almost makin me not wanna do this, anyway to achieve this kinda cleaning, but NOT to have the backfiring and what not?