Anyone ever Sea Foam their Miata?
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Anyone ever Sea Foam their Miata?
Last night I Sea Foamed my Nissan Altima with 132,000 miles on it and the difference was night and day. Anyone here try to Sea Foam their Miata yet? Notice any difference?
BTW, important fact. If anyone is considering doing it, I called Innovate and asked about running Sea Foam with the wide band sensor, and they "Highly recommend removing the sensor prior to Sea Foam treatment". Though thats only if you feed it into the intake, not oil and gas.
BTW, important fact. If anyone is considering doing it, I called Innovate and asked about running Sea Foam with the wide band sensor, and they "Highly recommend removing the sensor prior to Sea Foam treatment". Though thats only if you feed it into the intake, not oil and gas.
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I did it once in my old mx-3 when it was hesitating, it cured the problem. I sucked it through the intake once on my miata just to help clean injectors and get carbon out. It smoked like crazy for a few miles which was kind of fun, and didn't seem to do anything to my wideband.
How about SFI?
Interesting enough, my friend ran it in his 96 with 70k miles and didnt do anything for him either.
I should have taken a video of my Altima though, its shocking how different it runs.
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Ive herd bad and good about seafoam, but everyone here seems to have good results.
as for the wideband, the only thing I can think of is the seafoam dislodges a chunk of carbon that damages the o2? dunno.
as for the wideband, the only thing I can think of is the seafoam dislodges a chunk of carbon that damages the o2? dunno.
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When sea foam burns it produces tons of smoke. It frequently fouls plugs and damages O2 sensors. Plugs are worth changing once in a while anyway so no big deal. The smoke will over carbon the sensor though and can cause it to fail prematurely or just not read right. There is some way to clean the sensor, i don't remember how though.
I just use water now.
I just use water now.
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seafoamed once on my stock miata, smoked a bit, nothing special. but turbo charging my car did the same thing. now i can floor it all day and no smoke. my friend seafoamed his camry once and ended up shattering a piston and putting a hole in his block....so yea, i stay away from sea foam now.