Octane boosters & injector cleaners

[cody994x4]

what is your experience with these type of products? what have you used? what have you liked the most?

i generally steer away from all your regular injector cleaners/octane boosters like stp,44k, etc. alot of them brake build up loose and let it run further up in the fuel system.

however, i have heard of alot of people using one product. Seafoam.
is this stuff safe to run through my vehicle? i have never done any maintenance to my fuel system other than filters and i'm wanting to give the lines/injectors etc a good cleaning.

[Longshot270]

We put some in a chevy 2500 that was newer than your truck and it made an improvement. For once that chevy ran decent. :hehe:

[fifity]

i love seafoam. i was a skeptic, and a buddy bet me to use it. i did. then i paid him the twenty and i still use it.

[88Racing]

Nothing against seafoam, I have used it in the past with good results.
But one product that has been doing alot better than it is Techron.
Octane boosters?
You're better off running premium 91-93oct.
The cost factors add up over the cost of high octane gas for what you would need.
Take for example my Harley.
It's tuned and built to run on 91-93oct.
If I need gas and use 87-89oct along with a booster pac.
The booster pac runs $5.
So basically I just added a dollar per gallon of gas I just put in.

[fifity]

Oh, I wouldnt recommend seafoam as an Octane booster...I do recommend it for cleaning the oil galleys and for flushing the intake and a liquid scrub of the cylinders...watch out for vapor lock and the smoke screen you will create...

[88Racing]

Oh, I wouldnt recommend seafoam as an Octane booster...I do recommend it for cleaning the oil galleys and for flushing the intake and a liquid scrub of the cylinders...watch out for vapor lock and the smoke screen you will create...

I know. :)

Seems to me that seafoam worked better on carburated applications than efi.

[JWBFX4]

I have used octane boosters before with great luck, although it was not a truck it was a sea doo that was tuned for 91 octane, but all I could buy at the time was 87 octane. But as lars said its not worth it unless you just have to use it.

[cody994x4]

yea i dont have any desire to run octane boosters, just curious as to what would be best to give my fuel system a good cleaning.