I dont care how long its been around you still cant and never will be able to compress water! It has no where to go!

 

LOL. Water decarbonization is safe as long as you're not chugging down a quart in a minute. It's no different than using seafoam, except it's much cheaper. Water is incompressible, but so are most liquids, including seafoam and gasoline. You don't see your engine die just because gasoline is liquid. The idea is that the liquid will vaporize before the piston fully compresses the mixture.

Yes you can use water. Yes I have done it, and yes, it works just as well as seafoam when used through a vacuum hose (obviously don't put water in your gas tank).

 

By that logic, you shouldn't put any fuel into an engine because you can't compress gasoline or diesel.

 

Redline SI-1 is fantastic. My cars gets a bottle once a year. I still have old-stock Gumout Regane bottles that are 30-40% PEA and they're equally effective.

 

great thread! still need facts about that waterdoubt...

 

Yeah the older Gumout was very effective, not sure about the newer formula. I remember Larry Widmer (The Old One) got me using it many years back.

Water injection gives the engine a nice steam bath which really loosens up the carbon. With any fluid introduced to the combustion chamber, always introduce it as a mist rather than just pouring it in. I never liked the idea of attaching a vacuum hose to a bottle, that is how you can hydrolock the engine. Sending it in as a mist intermittently will exit with the exhaust and not cause any harm.

 

I've used seafoam in the past. Headsup it did nothing for me on our 140k TL.

I think you're better off running a techron or redline PEA cleaner through the tank plus switch over to shell or chevron gas on every 4th fill up.

I realize that's not the answer you want but it's probably better.

I do use seafoams spray to clean my TB.

 

Guys i actually tried the water method today, it fouled my plugs but just cleaned them up.

It made a small difference removing a little of carbon on top of the pistons (before and after).

 

GM used water injection in the 1962 and 1963 Oldsmobile Jetfire with it's turbocharged 10.25:1 compression aluminum V8. To keep detonation under control Oldsmobile used water injection and a fluid called "Olds Turbo Rocket Fluid" which was nothing more then a blend of water and methanol and a corrosion inhibitor. It was also used in Formula 1 racing for a short period of time before being banned for adding too much horsepower.
Yes you can get more power with water injection.

ROD

 

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