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Postby AllShowNoGo » Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:23 pm

Alright I just sea foamed my car and wow. I would have never imagined my car was going to spit out that much smoke.

But hears my question my front header appears to have a pretty bad leak. Can someone explain how bad this is for my car in terms of horsepower and gas mileage?

Plus as an added bonus my check engine light came off. Is it possible it cleaned my O2 sensor?
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Postby Midias » Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:24 pm

Sea foam is good stuff I have run it through EGR valves to clean them and make codes go away.
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Postby AllShowNoGo » Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:34 pm

LOL.. check engine light came back on
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Postby Americanctm10 » Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:22 pm

Take it to a shop, you might have a hole causing the leak.

And get an excact code from the CEL.
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Postby AllShowNoGo » Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:56 pm

sea foamed the car at my shop, and i know i have leak. Just trying to figure out what kind of problems this leak will cause.
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Postby Gangis » Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:12 pm

I love how my car smokes like a hippie at Woodstock when I seafoam her. :)
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Postby SleeperSolara » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:12 pm

I've SeaFoam'ed my car.
I have a slight leak in my front headers and my rear headers.
Wit my Greddy Evo exhaust when i SeaFoam i usually get alot of white smoke that is carbon burnin' up.
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Postby 99V6solaraSE » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:38 pm

i did mine.. and i saw no smoke at all.. wtf? lol
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Postby unbalancedwood » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:40 pm

did you pour it into your break booster?
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Postby Ruski » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:48 pm

99V6solaraSE wrote:i did mine.. and i saw no smoke at all.. wtf? lol

Same with me, well i had a tiny amount. Where did you pour it in ?
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Postby SleeperSolara » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:56 pm

Actually you put it in a cup pour about half of the bottle in the cup.
For the brake booster you will see a rubber hose near the master cylinder, and you get some pliers and unclamp the little clamp, and tug on the rubber hose alittle bit, and then, slowly feed the rubber hose SeaFoam until you finish the cup of SeaFoam.
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Postby Ruski » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:33 pm

haha dude i know . i did a write up on it
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Postby Jai_Jai_Binks » Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:18 pm

from the crank, i don't think anything will really smoke. it will only smoke from the brake-booster, i smoked like helll when i did mine...and always do snmoke like sheets
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