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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 09:06 PM
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and wow... each tailpipe looked like a steam engine's exhaust rack. my neighborhood was hotboxed as well too i used 1/2 of the deep spray on the intake manifold because there was alot of oil in there. when it was running with the brake booster vacuum line on it sounded like it had a nice cam in it.
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car run better now though?
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yep better pickup and response.

although i want to do it again just to **** the neighbors off again
it was crank crank crank no start then a long crank and 2 chimneys filling the street.


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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 10:42 PM
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Yeah, I just did that a week ago. I got a nice puff of blue-ish smoke when I started my car, haha. I put half a pint of seafoam in my crankcase. I changed the oil 400 miles before I seafoamed it. So after running my car about 80 miles with the seafoam in the oil, I change it, and the oil is black. Completely black. This is was my first time using seafoam, and I'm pretty impressed.
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yea im gonna change my oil at 100 miles. when you put the seafoam in the gas did you notice a difference in idle or anything?

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Yeah, I just did that a week ago. I got a nice puff of blue-ish smoke when I started my car, haha. I put half a pint of seafoam in my crankcase. I changed the oil 400 miles before I seafoamed it. So after running my car about 80 miles with the seafoam in the oil, I change it, and the oil is black. Completely black. This is was my first time using seafoam, and I'm pretty impressed.
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makes you think doesnt it.....how many people out there have never seafoamed there cars.....i only have like 7k miles on my new motor, so im not really in any need of it right now
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well the engine was de-carbonized from the previous owner, i didnt expect this much smoke out of it.

i was smoking a cigarette when the garage filled with smoke from the wind changing direction and i think i seafoamed my lungs.

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makes you think doesnt it.....how many people out there have never seafoamed there cars.....i only have like 7k miles on my new motor, so im not really in any need of it right now
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car is like u....as seafoam is to cigarettes...
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Old Oct 4, 2006 | 12:06 AM
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well it got me in the mood from the smoke coming out so i lit one up. monkey see, monkey do.

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Old Oct 4, 2006 | 12:08 AM
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but they have totally different results....good for the car....hmm bad for u ...hey but i guess your gonna die sometime right?
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working on an LT1 will kill you quicker than smoking. changing the plugs is like having the flu for 8 weeks.

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but they have totally different results....good for the car....hmm bad for u ...hey but i guess your gonna die sometime right?
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Old Oct 4, 2006 | 12:12 AM
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i think ill seafoam my car soon. i have 45k miles and i think its only been seafoamed once or twice by the previous owner, im due up for an oil change in the next couple hundred miles here too...
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Originally Posted by @nthony
i was smoking a cigarette when the garage filled with smoke from the wind changing direction and i think i seafoamed my lungs.
hahahaha thats great...wonder if that will increase your mileage and air intake.
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true....lts are a huge PITA
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Old Oct 4, 2006 | 12:17 AM
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it cleaned my oil.. i mean blood, its darker than before

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hahahaha thats great...wonder if that will increase your mileage and air intake.
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Originally Posted by @nthony
yea im gonna change my oil at 100 miles. when you put the seafoam in the gas did you notice a difference in idle or anything?
I put seafoam in the gas tank a while back, I really didn't notice too much there. The car has 106,000 miles on it and runs like it has 50,000. My car is goofy.
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