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Sat, May 1st, 2010, 11:43 AM
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Octane boosters & injector cleaners
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.
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Sat, May 1st, 2010, 02:43 PM
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We put some in a chevy 2500 that was newer than your truck and it made an improvement. For once that chevy ran decent.
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Sat, May 1st, 2010, 10:10 PM
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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.
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Sat, May 1st, 2010, 10:24 PM
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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...
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Sat, May 1st, 2010, 10:29 PM
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Quote:
 Seems to me that seafoam worked better on carburated applications than efi.
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Sun, May 2nd, 2010, 12:04 PM
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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.
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Sun, May 2nd, 2010, 10:13 PM
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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.
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