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Old May 5, 2007 | 04:03 PM
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Junk science, just like the fuel line magnets.
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Old May 5, 2007 | 07:06 PM
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You don't want acetone in your fuel lines. Or else you won't have any. Use only the fuel your owners manual recommends. Premium unleaded that contains no more than 10% ethanol. Even using a higher ethanol mixture than 10% will ruin your fuel lines. The owners manual says "no gasoline additives." Go with it.
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Old May 5, 2007 | 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by dolebludger,May 5 2007, 10:06 PM
You don't want acetone in your fuel lines. Or else you won't have any. Use only the fuel your owners manual recommends. Premium unleaded that contains no more than 10% ethanol. Even using a higher ethanol mixture than 10% will ruin your fuel lines. The owners manual says "no gasoline additives." Go with it.
with my friend Dolebludger.
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Old May 6, 2007 | 12:23 PM
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For the most part...
The only additive my car ever gets is a can of seafoam twice a year in oil/fuel/vaccum lines. I think the exhaust fumes it produces proves that it is working.
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Old May 6, 2007 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by TheCarGuy2021,May 6 2007, 12:23 PM
For the most part...
The only additive my car ever gets is a can of seafoam twice a year in oil/fuel/vaccum lines. I think the exhaust fumes it produces proves that it is working.
it's just smoke dude, please don't get suckered by the seafoam myth.
you can spray WD40 in there and it will give you smoke too.( i am serious)

honda sells a engine top cleaner(and used those by their tech), if you feels like spending money on seafoam, use honda's insteat.

at least you can warranty your work since it's a honda product after all.
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Old May 6, 2007 | 03:08 PM
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I thought the first post to that vid was interesting. Is that true? I know you can run jet fuel and subsidized farm diesel in a car.

"I gas up my car with oil-fuel instead of diesel, it costs exactly half of what gas and diesel cost, and it gets the same mileage. Of course this is illegal that is why i have a double gas tank so the police can never find out because there is actually 1 gallon of diesel in the seperate smaller tank, I gas up the big tank with oil-fuel in the trunk where there is a second opening to the bigger tank.

80% of people here have their own pumps at home so they can gas up their diesels with oil-fuel.

And by the way the only difference between oil-fuel and diesel is the colour and 0.5% of additives."
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Old May 6, 2007 | 05:02 PM
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I get around 12 mpg in my S, I'd like 2x the gas mileage !!
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Old May 6, 2007 | 05:11 PM
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"double your gas mileage 2X"

.... wouldnt that be quadrupling it?
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Old May 6, 2007 | 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Emil St-Hilaire,May 5 2007, 10:49 PM
with my friend Dolebludger.
with both of you.

I have used Mouse Milk to coat the inside of rusty gas tanks, and I've used higher octane off road only fuels in cars that I could tune to take advantage of the higher octane, but nothing goes in the Honda gas tank other than 93 octane pump gas from stations that have a high turnover rate.

Not to jack the thread, but have any of you ever used an "upper cylinder lubricant" like MMO?
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Old May 6, 2007 | 06:02 PM
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Personally, I don't see putting Seafoam in the tank UNLESS the car were going to be stored for a prolonged period and you were trying to prevent the gas in the system from forming varnish. Because, that is what Seafoam is for. I use it to store power lawn equipment during the off-season, so the carbs don't get gummed up -- and it works for this purpose. But I would never put it in my car's gas tank.
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