seafom or smiliar?

[mat3833]

alright, went with my mom to gt her miata serviced at wally world(dont ask...) and the asked if she wated the 2 stage intake and fuel system cleaner. i asked if they could do it on a 03 TS and they said no because it is turboed something about the intake addative combusting after the turbo and bad things... curious about wether or not that is BS? also, the car has 47000ish miles on it and im wondering if a seafoam treatment would be good? thinking about putting a bottle of fuel system cleaner in the tank at my next fill up, any recomendations on brand?

Matt

[noR]

yeah, you don't generally run intake treatment through a turbo, but through the throttle body and intake manifold only.

Oh well. But yeah, it'd be bad to run it through the turbo, no doubt.

Might be good, might be unnecessary. I've used'em though.

[mat3833]

ok, so the old guy wasnt crazy. he said something about it is essentially jet fuel that burns the carbon off of your intake tract.. whats the best wat to clean an intake on a turbo car? liiking to do a re-fresh seeing as it is a used car.

Matt

[noR]

follow the directions on the seafoam can.

Follow them carefully, you could easily break your car by putting too much seafoam in too fast.

Less 'jet fuel' and more 'alcohol'. But yeah.

"Throttle body cleaner" would be a start; and seafoam is a nice cleaner. Pretty aggressive, but it works.

[green02turbo]

I doubt the aluminum inside the turbo is going to spark off the cleaner and cause a fire. I'd just be careful if I was going to do it. The walmart guy is probably doing the suck it in a vacuum line cleaning though, with all of his talk about it continuing to burn after the turbo. I personally don't think it would hurt anything if done right. But thats just my somewhat experianced oppinion.

[noR]

That's the only way I know to clean'em is to use a vac line on the intake port. Just do it right there at the TB man; it won't have to go through the turbo or the 4' of IC piping.