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Old 10-18-2006, 06:23 PM
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Followed the sticky that is up, and man did it work. Holy cow I've never seen a cloud of low-hanging smoke like the one I left. A buddy of mine and I were pulling away to drive in a "spirited" manner, and when I hit it in first it looked like something out of Spy Hunter.

A quick thanks for the write up, and the car does idle more smoothly now, and seems a bit more reponsive on the throttle.
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hey did u do all the steps? and how many miles are on your T/A?
Old 10-18-2006, 09:27 PM
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I did this on my 01 with 40k miles and it didn't smoke too bad.
I also did it on my 155k mile Z26 and it looked like a north korean nuke.
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yeah i have about 62,000 on mines...i wonder if it will smoke?
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i had 90k and it really smoked, people thought my car was on fire
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did mine 3 weeks ago. smoked or should i say hotboxed my street
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I have 56k on mine, did the seafoam to the gas and heads. Didn't add it to the oil because the oil was hot, maybe later today, though.

Today she's running quite smoothly and has a bit more response on the throttle. It seemed to work wonders for me.
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what do you mean you added it to the heads? isnt that throwing it in with your oil?
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break booster
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oh yeah
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did mine around 90k miles, made EXTREMELY dense smoke for about 3/4 mile and got lighter for another 2 or so. smoke was so dense in fact when i looked in my rear view mirror it looked as if someone just put a piece of gray contruction paper on my rear window. the look on those landscape workers was classic, they saw me coming and just started as i went past them and that's about when i lost sight of them
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I did mine at 48k and had nothing, really. I was a bit suprised by that, almost a little disappointed.




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