we'll i'm waiting for honda. they didn't have an oil filter in at the time. so once they call me i'm going to pick it up and change my oil. i hope this works.

 

Change your oil as soon as you get the chance. Preferably no more than 100 miles. I've used Seafoam Deep creep on my throttle body and the regular Seafom on my gas tank and oil crankcase. Nothing went wrong and the car seems rejuvenated. Keep in mind that my car consumed a lot of oil, close to a quart every 1000 miles.

I don't think it's just placebo due to the smoke show. There's a reason why it smokes, it's not just the Seafoam burning without cleaning some or most carbon deposits.

 

how do you know what it would've looked like WITHOUT the seafoam treatment?

thats a horrible way to gauge its effectiveness....

 

Blah blah, i don't think it does jack squat. Did it on my friend's 97 M3/4 with 120K miles on it and I didn't notice a difference at all. We sucked it through the PCV and used about 1/4 can.

I think the OP's problem sounds like a vaccum leak, are you sure you didn't connect all the hoses back securely?

 

So what did it do if it didn't clean off the carbon. That's what you guys are saying it does.

 

I used some STP Fuel injected TB cleaner out of an aerosol can. It cleaned it out nice but the car didnt want to start afterward kinda freaked me out...Obviously was simply the build up of Hydrocarbons displacing oxygen for combustion so it took a few cranks to clear it out and for the motor to fire. Anyway definitely scary...

 

maybe it cleaned off some...

 

for 5 bucks you can't really go wrong if u do it right lol.

please try and keep this a car related subject not a pitty arguement about its effectivness.

 

okay well i have an update but its a bad one. driving home today i got a Blinking CEL while in VTEC. i'm concerned but at the same time i'm not because it went away after it droped off 6k. so i'm thinkings its the oil, because i'm still waiting on honda for my filter to change it. so i think its something wrong with the vtec solenoid. but not sure gonna go get the code drawn tonight.

=( damn seafoam...damn impatients

 

Thinner oil wouldn't make your car rev slowly. The blinking CEL probably came on because your plugs are fouled all to hell after dumping sea foam through your engine. I bet if you pull the code you'll have a couple of misfires logged in the ECU.

Have you even pulled your plugs yet to take a look? That'd be the first thing I would have done if the car was exhibiting the symptoms you describe.

If your car is struggling to build revs don't rev it! There's obviously a problem here, beating on it further won't magically restore performance.