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Old Dec 9, 2007 | 07:44 AM
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how well does zmax work? speed tv shows seem to praise it. is it what it is made out to be or is zmax just paying to have speed tv glorify their products. my buddy has an 02 z28 and i have a 96 ss and we were considering using it and wanted to know what to expect. my car has 124k and i imagine it has some pretty nasty buildup on the internals.
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Old Dec 9, 2007 | 08:07 AM
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its a waste of money. run good oil and keep everything clean, you can use seafoam to clean everything.
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Old Dec 9, 2007 | 08:27 AM
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I hear it's good mixed with a splash of Vodka...
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Old Dec 9, 2007 | 08:53 AM
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speed tv shows seem to praise it.
That's called money...they'd promote tampons & tinactin if they were sponsoring the show too.
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Old Dec 9, 2007 | 09:00 AM
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with 124k try this if you havent already: https://ls1tech.com/forums/general-maintenance-repairs/534376-how-seafoam-your-car.html
you will notice a difference if its your first time.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 08:12 AM
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thanks for the info guys gonna seafoam it asap. actually looking forward to the cloud of smoke gonna video it to show my friends.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 07:02 PM
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If Carroll Shelby has his name on it it's a scam.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 08:26 PM
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LMAO, I saw that episode of trucks a couple of weeks ago. IIRC zmax got sued because other than the fact that it didn't do anything good, it doubled carbon build up
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Old Dec 14, 2007 | 10:01 AM
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ok i got 2 cans of seafoam motor treatment nobody has the damn deep creep i've called autozone carquest and advance and all say the same crap. i ask, "seafoam?" "yeah seafoam we got that" "what about deep creep" "nawww we aint got none of that" WTF how effective is it gonna be if i do it w/o the deep creep?
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