carbon clean out

[Dave WM]

The project farm guy cracks me up, been watching him for a while. the boss and I watch him when ever he has a new video. Cracks me up with the pointing out and reading the labels, that and the oil racing. We pick our horse and watch the fun, like going to the Kentucky derby.

[AK260]

Yes I think my better oil use may be a factor of less reving it out. I have purposely been easy on it, most of the time spent around 2500-2700 rpm, shifting at about 3k. Perhaps that is a contributing factor as this is much more sedate than when I 1st got the car and was reving up to 4k at least with every shift. 

 

 

 

What!?!?!? Sacrilege!! Most setups (even stock) on L6s don’t really come to life until 3.5-3.8k rpm. Poor pony isn’t allowed to stretch her legs!! ;) My father’s gen I 16v 1.8L Ford Mundano used to run like a pig until I drove it once in a while with my leaden right foot. He never took it over 3k rpm!!! There was also the case of a lawsuit of an old guy who bought a 16v Mondeo and refused to take it past 2k; his valves kept sticking and having warranty repairs. Ford told him he had to get it to 4K or over to let the valves “turn” but he felt that was excessive and didn’t suit his driving style.

 

On a more serious note though - have you guys who use these products considered changing your oil after using the product? You will get “blow by” and this stuff is sitting in your oil having all sorts of reactions. I am coming from a point of utter ignorance of course as I don’t know what these products contain for sure and to what levels (some are nitrogen based but not seafoam I think). One would assume they must have some pretty corrosive elements that shouldn’t sit inside an engine or in the oil for a long period of time. [emoji848]

 

Having taken off and manually cleaned the throttle body on my 3.2v6 Audi, I watched many videos of people pouring all sorts of magic cleaners into the intake with massive plumes of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipes for 5-10 mins. I cannot imagine that was good long term for the Cats or any O2 sensors etc.

 

You can’t break carbon down or melt it with these products, you can only break down the substances that clump to carbon or help it cling on. The one thing that worries me is carbon, the toughest known substance, breaking off in tiny chunks and sitting between piston rings, grinding away. Now I know why I’m an insomniac!

 

 

 

[Dave WM]

I will be changing the oil in my test stand engine soon, its seen nothing but short duration test runs so its time anyway, not to mention the dumping of a bunch of test cleaners. Good point about possible harm to oils.

 

 

[Zed Head]

50/50 antifreeze and water.  Use one of those water injection systems the drag racers use.  It really is tempting...

 

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Edited September 24, 2020 by Zed Head