A wallpaper steamer applied to the inlet of my brother's landy cleaned it up a treat :) Not seen a stream of water injected directly before though, new one on me!
@fitimio001 water can't be compressed, but you don't put enough in thee to hydrolock it. The solvent properties of the water is what cause it to clean out carbon. It's been done for years and much better than any snake oil you can pick up at autozone.
This is rotary trick we have no rods to bend lol it wont hurt the motor if you do 2 things. Let engine hit operating temp so it vaporizes and run it at 3000rpm so it pulls less water into each cylinder at each stroke. And use the vacuum it self to pull the water not a sprayer. And never tap water lol.
you should have used a fine sprayer in the throttle body with "DISTILLED WATER" your shooting minerals and chlorine and flouride and whatever else they put in tap water into your engine. pure H20 is much better for this... and does work
i was eating a bag of chips while watching this video (yes im an american, yes im fat). i was thinking meh til i saw under the hood. i literally dropped the bag of chips all over the floor and didnt look down to see what happened til the video was over. BEAST
The guy's got ambition, but you can't even see if it's doing anything or not. Might be risking too much to just get a shiny, cleaner piston. Might be alright to do just once or twice on a real worn engine over its lifetime, but otherwise you're risking a serious problem.
Also, would the same thing work with all sorts of different engines? Alot more gadgets on the newer ones, and the older V8 and V6 engines could be way more fragile than this one.
it is kinda the same as a water methanol injection, but water meth sprays a really fine mist. both will get the job done. btw cleaning carbon deposits allows ignition advance or a lower grade of fuel to be used.
I personally would not do this. I've used spray bottles, but never anything like this. If you can't personaly see that the water, or cleaner being sprayed in is being consumed that very moment you risk hydrolocking the engine. Besides, nitrous cleans engines just fine :)
Hmm, this is actually a good way to clean a combustion chamber out, but i wouldnt shoot a jet of water, u might want it atomized a bit better... (Paint spray gun)
If youve even seen the cc of an engine that had coolant leaking into a cylinder, then you know how sparkly clean water can get it
as i,m into valeting/detailing this to me seems shocking. Surely this has a massive potentiol for engine failure. Water is not compressable at all and could cause your conrods to bend, fuck your crank or the bearings as the piston comes up the bore you have incompressable water trying to push against it ..???? surely. I,d be going skitz if i saw someone do this
That's exactly what I'm looking for! Got a bad ass spark knock on my 2.5 ranger, and everything seems to be in tip top running condition and no CEL's! So I'm guessing this is the next option to try.
I wouldn't spray it in at the rate you did in the video, maybe half & mix with alcohol like has been said. However this method will NOT hurt your engine if done correctly & it will infact remove carbon build up.
So many young guys don't know about these old tricks. Spraying water down the carburetor while the engine is running is actually a safer way to remove carbon deposits than using seafoam or any other solvents that soften and break up carbon, oil and varnish build up. You can mix water and alcohol in a 50/50 mix so that more of it vaporizes. Steam cleaning will remove carbon in smaller pieces making it the safer way to clean out the carbon. Another method is called a Italian tune-up (google it).
this is stupid that carbon will naturally flake of and burn up in the cylinder to be expelled out the exhaust. by doing this your forcing a large amount of carbon to flake off at once forcing it thru the cylinders, its not good for the valves (they can get caught in the valve and seat causing the valve not to close all the way) o the cylinder walls. who knows how many revolutions it will take to blow it all out. just let your engine be, if its that bad then its time to rebuild
Using a spray bottle filled with water and alcohol to steam off the carbon in small particles works. It's a old mechanics trick that still recommended before taking your car in for an emission test. Water injection systems are also used on high compression engines to control knocking and they allow turbocharged cars to run more boost on pump gas. Google water injection systems or look some up on YouTube. Water injection systems are used in racing and on the street.
water/METH mix is injected into engines to cool combustion chamber temperatures allowing for higher compression levels along with octane rating..the reason i do not like this method is a old timer had me change his engine in 97 neon with 2.0l sohc because it started smoking. his valve seals went. he said he did this steam cleaning method a few times. guess wtf i was spilling on me when i lifted the intake out....water! use a liquid that evaporates such as seafoam. end of story
methonal is mixed with water to help the water burn off and not building up inside the engine. the only time people will spray straight water into engines is in some high hp dragracing applications and in a few high hp diesel pick ups... its not practical. and is hard on valves for example. they WILL rust, that rust is no good for valve seals. nor is it for the cylinder walls. im tired of arguing with your out of date ignorant ass.
Your the ignorant ass! It's a small amount of water and it burns off. Alcohol aka methanol helps promote the evaporation. It was very common to use water injection systems in the 70's and 80's because of the low octane rating of pump gas. Small amounts of water won't cause any damage! It won't rust unless you shut then engine off while spraying and leave it for days. If your neon story is even true then it wasn't a small amount of water. Nobody is saying use a garden hose.
Neither the video description nor any of the posts tell, what this guy is actually doing here...
brake booster line what ?
Dunno what's available to you guys on the US-market....
I recently put LiquiMoly Injection Cleaner in the tank of my 1997 Honda Accord Aerodeck (CE2), which does the same as the premium fuel sold in the US and Canada.
As soon as spring arrives I will take off the entire intake manifold and clean the feck out of it...
OMG if you want to clean your PETROL engine safely..Use a similar grade DIESEL engine oil for a couple thousand miles... this is just a dumb idea and urbex you are right redex just makes big lumps of carbon fall off and wreck things
You just showed us what NOT to do with your car... Good for your pistons and cylinder walls! Just use RON 98 fuel (if your car can, like my VW) and do your regular maintenance. That way your car will live longer than when you do all these stupid things.
Not to mention the presence of steam is making the fuel extremely homogeneous, which will most likely make the carbon you removed come back in about 10 minutes of running. Carbon doesn't stack, once you have a thin layer it stays a thin layer. Any thick substance on top of that is a burnt oil deposit from the valve stem seal.
You guys realize that carbon is a natural cooler and makes an engine run more efficiently, and helps eliminate predetonation? the only place carbon is bad in an engine is on the back face of the intake valve. Which is only present on a lowly and tired engine head where the valve face seal lets compression by. And in that case, cleaning the engine with seafoam or this steam method would only make it worse.
Actually no your not! Carbon naturally stay cooler as its harder to conduct heat with it but once heated it will stay hotter compared to the engine block, lets say I have buildup on my cylinder head and it gets nice hot. Well the cooling system WONT remove that heat and thus you have a potential source for knock.
Trust me if this was a great way to keep engines cool F1 woulda done it a LOOOONG time ago.
...F1 DOES do that. They score the hell out of the combustion chamber to promote carbon buildup. So does top fuel, and so do most educated engine builders. Also, heat has absolutely nothing to do with knock. Knock and predetonation are not the same thing. It's almost impossible to superheat carbon deposits. Even in a kiln carbon deposit surface temperature rapidly disperses heat quicker than Al, Cu, and AlCu alloys. And you're trying to tell me the average cast iron piston does better?
LOL score the hell out of chambers to promote carbon build up. what a joke. in racing like F1 and drag racing. you want flow. any imperfections as little as a gasket not lined up perfectly make all the difference. its called a port and POLISH for a reason. less turbulance, more air flow, more fule you can dump into engine resulting in more power. the smoother your ports the longer they will stay naturally clean. blowby is the killer, bakes onto ports and builds up.
Flow has nothing to do with combustion chamber surface finishes. Flow is 100% unrelated to combustion chambers all together. Also, you don't want just flow, and you don't want too much flow. You want velocity. It's not uncommon to see N/A builds FILLING intake ports to make them smaller to increase velocity. Second, an engine WANTS turbulence. I take it you have never dyno tested a port and polish job. Too much of a polished surface mass for a very inefficient burn.
I'm going to do this in the summer. Engine should be warmed up prior to the procedure and the car driven on a highway afterward to make sure all moisture in out of the motor. On older cars some water could leak through piston rings and end up in the oil. An oil change would be helpful afterward.
i use a steamer straight in the intake. more then likely all that water is only going to the 2 middle cylinders, the steam on the other hand gets distributed evenly and cleans the valves before even entering the cylinder
That's actually a very smart idea! But I'm wondering if the steam actually makes it to the engine itself since the steam may be gone by the time it reaches the cylinders... I dunno, but the idea does seem good. I had a headgasket blow on my old engine. When I took off the head, I noticed that the head and pistons that had water/coolant in them we're 100% carbon free and were actually shiny. I even took pics of them.
@hondamagnaperformanc Seriously nothing would happen the oil is reapplied every time these egnines go through their revolution. Believe it or not I got this same engine as this guy on my civic that went 40K miles on the same oil before it almost locked up btw it was not my doing it was the last female owner but I saved it and so water my friend is nothing.
I've done this to many cars with great results. The point of this is to clean the carbon buildup in the combustion chamber. As the water evaporates, it creates steam, which effectively cleans your piston head and the top of the cylinder area. He seems to use the perfect amount of water in this video. TOO much water can be bad though. Good job there!
@clemenza313, Yes this works. If you are adding too much water while the car is idling, the most that would happen is that your engine shuts off. If you are accelerating at all while adding too much number, your engine can hydrolock and become destroyed. He seems to use the perfect amount of water here.
get some SeaFoam, use it with the same methods in video...much safer for the engine and cleans alot better...whatever is left over you dump into your gas tank.
@clemenza313, SeaFoam actually works great. It also puts on a huge smoke show that makes other people around you wonder what the heck is going on. I loved seeing their expressions on their faces. The thing is, that SeaFoam sometimes works TOO good. My friend used SeaFoam on his old Nissan Truck, and ever since, he's been blowing a little blue smoke and buring a bit of oil, and leaks a tiny bit too. Sometimes hard gunk holds your seals together and SeaFoam removes that hard gunk.
I used a similar thing in the UK called REDEX. That puts on the same smoke show and RUINS the engine. There is no way I would ever use that stuff again.
i just did seafoam yesterday to my 99 ranger pick up. it runs smooth as can be now. i didnt add it to my oil though. cas im afraid some gunk is holding the oil in so imma wait till seafoam again when i got to change the oil
@clemenza313 hell no this isnt the right way, that water would steam the oil off the cylinder walls and do more harm then good to your piston rings, way to go sageuvagony now your gonna need a new set of piston rings and O2 sensor alot sooner now
Combustion has water as a byproduct.... Water and CO2 I believe? This should be fine, You will not hydrolock your motor unless you put a great amount, enough to fill up a cylinder...
ehhhhh, i dont recommend this, too mucha nd you hydrolock your engine possibly cracking a pition or busting a rod, id rather know my engine is being held together by sledge or carbon then have it running and depending on it when its held together by crap
i wouldnt do this to my truck...civic yes because who cares about them... why would you introduce that amount of water to your fuel system...probably just messed up your 02 sensors as water will damage them
@oilfield666, Water isn't mixing with your fuel system. Water is going straight into the cylinder. Too little water is useless, too much is dangerous, and the right amount does wonders!
just keep this in mind...water ruins o2 sensors...dumping water into your intake, will be turned into steam...after it combusts, o2 sensors soak that up
O2 sensors aren't damaged by steam. When you start your car in the morning you will see white smoke (actually steam) and water droplets coming from your tail pipe as the engine burns off the water left from condensation.
yes. but if you anyone about cars, anytime you blow a head gasket the 02 sensors most likely need to be replaced because of moisute damage making them read wrong. anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a complete idiot. the more effictive, and EASIER ON THE ENGINE method is pouring (slowly) seafoam into the engine. you people have no idea wtf this water will do to you valves, cylinders and rings if not COMPLETELY burnt off, that water WILL sit in bottom of intake for long time.
t's just spraying a small amount of water just like the seafoam dripping into the intake stream. Water doesn't damage O2 sensors your thinking about the antifreeze fouling the sensor with deposits (you can clean the deposits off with a torch but most shops would rather sell you a new part). The engines heat will evaporate off any water droplets (you don't do this on a cold engine and shut it off right after). Using solvents will remove carbon in bigger chunks than water.
DON'T do this. I followed his steps and HYDRYLOCKED my engine. However, I have been using seafoam with no problem what so ever on my 98 civics and 04 camry. So now i need to find ways to get my car started.
Too much water will cause the car to die. The sprayer just happens to spray the right amount of water. Seafoam works GREAT, but isn't too good for very old cars since Seafoam works SO well, that it will remove carbon deposits in little cracks on your seals, which will expose oil leaks. Many older engines's seals are held together with carbon. Seafoam won't CAUSE a problem, it will just expose your hidden problems.
You can't hydrolock a running engine with a spray bottle, you would need a garden hose on full blast. You probably tried doing it on a cold engine and fouled your spark plugs.
Wat problem might you have with an old engine & using seafoam?? I have a 1990 Cadillac Seville & it was previously sitting for about 5 years before I brought it back to life, I already know I have a powersteering leak any other problems that come out of using it??
steam cleaning your engine is a good way to solve certain problems in your engine, but you do run the risk of putting too much water in the engine and it water locking, which is why he had the automatic sprayer, to control the water flow so its just a dribble, not a fake, a real way to do things.
I used to work at a Chrysler dealership and the 04 minivans that have sat on the lot for a while wouldn't start on those really cold days. Then one of the salespersons had to jump start of them and was running rough and misfiring. So one of the older techs poured some water through the brake booster vacuum hose and the engine actually smoothed out! I was totally shocked! If you guys use this methond, make sure to change the engine oil and the spark plugs just to be on the safe side.
That's exactly what I did. I replaced spark plugs and oil since loose deposits of carbon start breaking loose and can foul your park plugs. Most of the carbon deposits ended up on my back bumper. My car is running SUPER smooth till this day.
You can pretty much use whatever you happen to be drinking at the time. I've seen guys use coffee or Mountain Dew or whatever. Anything with water in it.
i'm a mechanic and i just performed that procedure on a '02 dodge ram 1500 to break up carbon in the combustion chambers. just took the air cleaner assembly off, started the truck, and held the throttle open while pouring in (slowly mind you) about a half cup of water in each throttle body port (there were 2). worked like a charm. afterwards, just drive it about 55mph in 2nd gear to break everything loose and clear everything out. don't worry if it smokes, that's the carbon coming off.
Seafoam works great, except that it sometimes works TOO great on older cards, and then causes leaks because it removes the carbon deposits that actually were keeping the car from leaking.
This has been done for a long time, ever since the carb days. The super heated water vapor breaks up carbon in the engine. Totally safe, and you cant hydrolock your engine on that kinda quantity of fluid and zero load.
you can hydrolock on motor on zero load. we used to put a liquid carb cleaner in through a vacuum line until one student totally openend the vacuum line and it hydralocked. now we use mopar intake cleaner. stuff works great!!!
go to dodge and get a can of intake cleaner. its really easy to do. best with two people. just spray the cleaner directly onto the throttle body and keep the throttle open just enough to keep the engine from dying. then when the can runs out shut it off. let the car sit for a little while and feel the intake manifold, its COLD!!! then start it up ans let it idle then rev a couple times some cars smoke some don't very good stuff!!
Well it definitely has kept my car running super smooth till this day so I'm 100% sure the water cleaning has helped. My idle before this cleaning was rough and crappy and would cause my steering wheel to shake all over at a red light.
excellent thanks for the reply man, i think i am going to try that on my civic, mine didnt pass the inspection. might save me from opening the engine apart and cleaning it
A wallpaper steamer applied to the inlet of my brother's landy cleaned it up a treat :) Not seen a stream of water injected directly before though, new one on me!
ttttonyyyy 1 day ago
@fitimio001 water can't be compressed, but you don't put enough in thee to hydrolock it. The solvent properties of the water is what cause it to clean out carbon. It's been done for years and much better than any snake oil you can pick up at autozone.
thepalmetto 1 day ago
i was just thinking of doing this the other day!
outdoorsman310 5 days ago
Is the water going in the cylinders? Because water cant be compressed....
fitimio001 4 weeks ago
has your engine died yet?
MrPortuguese1 1 month ago
@garrett6699 I did not know this...... now added to my unless book of knowledge
bzmotoninja83 3 months ago
This is rotary trick we have no rods to bend lol it wont hurt the motor if you do 2 things. Let engine hit operating temp so it vaporizes and run it at 3000rpm so it pulls less water into each cylinder at each stroke. And use the vacuum it self to pull the water not a sprayer. And never tap water lol.
EPTRotorsports 6 months ago
you should have used a fine sprayer in the throttle body with "DISTILLED WATER" your shooting minerals and chlorine and flouride and whatever else they put in tap water into your engine. pure H20 is much better for this... and does work
ncbeatty88 6 months ago
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i was eating a bag of chips while watching this video (yes im an american, yes im fat). i was thinking meh til i saw under the hood. i literally dropped the bag of chips all over the floor and didnt look down to see what happened til the video was over. BEAST
UunonMopo 7 months ago
The guy's got ambition, but you can't even see if it's doing anything or not. Might be risking too much to just get a shiny, cleaner piston. Might be alright to do just once or twice on a real worn engine over its lifetime, but otherwise you're risking a serious problem.
Also, would the same thing work with all sorts of different engines? Alot more gadgets on the newer ones, and the older V8 and V6 engines could be way more fragile than this one.
Momoomar 7 months ago
it is kinda the same as a water methanol injection, but water meth sprays a really fine mist. both will get the job done. btw cleaning carbon deposits allows ignition advance or a lower grade of fuel to be used.
Rone170 11 months ago
I personally would not do this. I've used spray bottles, but never anything like this. If you can't personaly see that the water, or cleaner being sprayed in is being consumed that very moment you risk hydrolocking the engine. Besides, nitrous cleans engines just fine :)
WoodcockMichael 1 year ago
yeah this works, until your hydro lock the engine....
AndoCommando3 1 year ago
@AndoCommando3 you might fuel very more water to lock it
boilingpoint2 9 months ago
Did you know the 4 beeps is Morse Code for the letter "H" ..haha I dont think many people realize that
garrett6699 1 year ago 5
@garrett6699 Wow I heard that beep my whole life, but didnt realize that.
Fatmouse25 1 year ago
@garrett6699 thats sweet. I could imagine watching a show where kidnappers were caught because the blindfolded victim recognized it as a honda sound
paintballgundown8 1 year ago
@garrett6699 haha wow really. H for honda. thats awsome!
Lilmiket1000 10 months ago
Hmm, this is actually a good way to clean a combustion chamber out, but i wouldnt shoot a jet of water, u might want it atomized a bit better... (Paint spray gun)
If youve even seen the cc of an engine that had coolant leaking into a cylinder, then you know how sparkly clean water can get it
mistameanor420 1 year ago
fuk honda.
Howie262 1 year ago
mm a misfiring engine sounds awesome not to mention the rubber seals in the brake booster............
Dooooney 1 year ago
as i,m into valeting/detailing this to me seems shocking. Surely this has a massive potentiol for engine failure. Water is not compressable at all and could cause your conrods to bend, fuck your crank or the bearings as the piston comes up the bore you have incompressable water trying to push against it ..???? surely. I,d be going skitz if i saw someone do this
295walk 1 year ago
your car is really gay!
CENTRX45 1 year ago
trans fluid and water breaks the carbon deposits on the pistons.... great way to to knock out the the spark knock
n2ostyle 1 year ago
@n2ostyle
That's exactly what I'm looking for! Got a bad ass spark knock on my 2.5 ranger, and everything seems to be in tip top running condition and no CEL's! So I'm guessing this is the next option to try.
mitosis123 1 year ago
dude really .. ever heard of seafoam?
sillyJ91 1 year ago
I think hes just trying to make people dizzy or sick with his recording skills.
humboldtpopeye 1 year ago
I wouldn't spray it in at the rate you did in the video, maybe half & mix with alcohol like has been said. However this method will NOT hurt your engine if done correctly & it will infact remove carbon build up.
vegasfordguy 2 years ago
So many young guys don't know about these old tricks. Spraying water down the carburetor while the engine is running is actually a safer way to remove carbon deposits than using seafoam or any other solvents that soften and break up carbon, oil and varnish build up. You can mix water and alcohol in a 50/50 mix so that more of it vaporizes. Steam cleaning will remove carbon in smaller pieces making it the safer way to clean out the carbon. Another method is called a Italian tune-up (google it).
R5alive 2 years ago
this is stupid that carbon will naturally flake of and burn up in the cylinder to be expelled out the exhaust. by doing this your forcing a large amount of carbon to flake off at once forcing it thru the cylinders, its not good for the valves (they can get caught in the valve and seat causing the valve not to close all the way) o the cylinder walls. who knows how many revolutions it will take to blow it all out. just let your engine be, if its that bad then its time to rebuild
oilfield666 2 years ago
@oilfield666
Using a spray bottle filled with water and alcohol to steam off the carbon in small particles works. It's a old mechanics trick that still recommended before taking your car in for an emission test. Water injection systems are also used on high compression engines to control knocking and they allow turbocharged cars to run more boost on pump gas. Google water injection systems or look some up on YouTube. Water injection systems are used in racing and on the street.
R5alive 2 years ago
water/METH mix is injected into engines to cool combustion chamber temperatures allowing for higher compression levels along with octane rating..the reason i do not like this method is a old timer had me change his engine in 97 neon with 2.0l sohc because it started smoking. his valve seals went. he said he did this steam cleaning method a few times. guess wtf i was spilling on me when i lifted the intake out....water! use a liquid that evaporates such as seafoam. end of story
oilfield666 2 years ago
methonal is mixed with water to help the water burn off and not building up inside the engine. the only time people will spray straight water into engines is in some high hp dragracing applications and in a few high hp diesel pick ups... its not practical. and is hard on valves for example. they WILL rust, that rust is no good for valve seals. nor is it for the cylinder walls. im tired of arguing with your out of date ignorant ass.
oilfield666 2 years ago
Your the ignorant ass! It's a small amount of water and it burns off. Alcohol aka methanol helps promote the evaporation. It was very common to use water injection systems in the 70's and 80's because of the low octane rating of pump gas. Small amounts of water won't cause any damage! It won't rust unless you shut then engine off while spraying and leave it for days. If your neon story is even true then it wasn't a small amount of water. Nobody is saying use a garden hose.
R5alive 2 years ago
okay old timer.
oilfield666 2 years ago
Neither the video description nor any of the posts tell, what this guy is actually doing here...
brake booster line what ?
Dunno what's available to you guys on the US-market....
I recently put LiquiMoly Injection Cleaner in the tank of my 1997 Honda Accord Aerodeck (CE2), which does the same as the premium fuel sold in the US and Canada.
As soon as spring arrives I will take off the entire intake manifold and clean the feck out of it...
rickysnewstuff 2 years ago
OMG if you want to clean your PETROL engine safely..Use a similar grade DIESEL engine oil for a couple thousand miles... this is just a dumb idea and urbex you are right redex just makes big lumps of carbon fall off and wreck things
andrewbobbin 2 years ago
You just showed us what NOT to do with your car... Good for your pistons and cylinder walls! Just use RON 98 fuel (if your car can, like my VW) and do your regular maintenance. That way your car will live longer than when you do all these stupid things.
2idiot4u 2 years ago
Not to mention the presence of steam is making the fuel extremely homogeneous, which will most likely make the carbon you removed come back in about 10 minutes of running. Carbon doesn't stack, once you have a thin layer it stays a thin layer. Any thick substance on top of that is a burnt oil deposit from the valve stem seal.
DemoFly 2 years ago
You guys realize that carbon is a natural cooler and makes an engine run more efficiently, and helps eliminate predetonation? the only place carbon is bad in an engine is on the back face of the intake valve. Which is only present on a lowly and tired engine head where the valve face seal lets compression by. And in that case, cleaning the engine with seafoam or this steam method would only make it worse.
DemoFly 2 years ago
Sir, you are absolutely incorrect!
jxyooj339 2 years ago
I am 100% correct. I am studying to become and automotive engineer and an apprentice to nelson racing engines.
DemoFly 2 years ago
Actually no your not! Carbon naturally stay cooler as its harder to conduct heat with it but once heated it will stay hotter compared to the engine block, lets say I have buildup on my cylinder head and it gets nice hot. Well the cooling system WONT remove that heat and thus you have a potential source for knock.
Trust me if this was a great way to keep engines cool F1 woulda done it a LOOOONG time ago.
Go study retard
needspeed96 2 years ago
...F1 DOES do that. They score the hell out of the combustion chamber to promote carbon buildup. So does top fuel, and so do most educated engine builders. Also, heat has absolutely nothing to do with knock. Knock and predetonation are not the same thing. It's almost impossible to superheat carbon deposits. Even in a kiln carbon deposit surface temperature rapidly disperses heat quicker than Al, Cu, and AlCu alloys. And you're trying to tell me the average cast iron piston does better?
DemoFly 2 years ago
LOL score the hell out of chambers to promote carbon build up. what a joke. in racing like F1 and drag racing. you want flow. any imperfections as little as a gasket not lined up perfectly make all the difference. its called a port and POLISH for a reason. less turbulance, more air flow, more fule you can dump into engine resulting in more power. the smoother your ports the longer they will stay naturally clean. blowby is the killer, bakes onto ports and builds up.
oilfield666 2 years ago
Flow has nothing to do with combustion chamber surface finishes. Flow is 100% unrelated to combustion chambers all together. Also, you don't want just flow, and you don't want too much flow. You want velocity. It's not uncommon to see N/A builds FILLING intake ports to make them smaller to increase velocity. Second, an engine WANTS turbulence. I take it you have never dyno tested a port and polish job. Too much of a polished surface mass for a very inefficient burn.
DemoFly 2 years ago
Also, an engines cooling system has absolutely dick all to do with combustion chamber temperatures.
DemoFly 2 years ago
Arg buddy you are washing the hell out of your cylinder walls. Thats a very bad idea.
You're not atomizing it at all. Thats.. Uhg . Honda owners.
Nettikturbo 2 years ago
stfu
jbw5485 2 years ago
I'm going to do this in the summer. Engine should be warmed up prior to the procedure and the car driven on a highway afterward to make sure all moisture in out of the motor. On older cars some water could leak through piston rings and end up in the oil. An oil change would be helpful afterward.
tgamirov 2 years ago
i use a steamer straight in the intake. more then likely all that water is only going to the 2 middle cylinders, the steam on the other hand gets distributed evenly and cleans the valves before even entering the cylinder
Markitos203 2 years ago 2
That's actually a very smart idea! But I'm wondering if the steam actually makes it to the engine itself since the steam may be gone by the time it reaches the cylinders... I dunno, but the idea does seem good. I had a headgasket blow on my old engine. When I took off the head, I noticed that the head and pistons that had water/coolant in them we're 100% carbon free and were actually shiny. I even took pics of them.
sageuvagony 2 years ago
@sageuvagony what do you think thats doing to your piston rings when your steaming the oil off your cylinder walls??
hondamagnaperformanc 1 year ago
@hondamagnaperformanc Seriously nothing would happen the oil is reapplied every time these egnines go through their revolution. Believe it or not I got this same engine as this guy on my civic that went 40K miles on the same oil before it almost locked up btw it was not my doing it was the last female owner but I saved it and so water my friend is nothing.
egn83b 10 months ago
I do this all the time wih my truck. It does wonders. Just watch with how much water you use and you'll be fine.
stegopainx2 2 years ago
I've done this to many cars with great results. The point of this is to clean the carbon buildup in the combustion chamber. As the water evaporates, it creates steam, which effectively cleans your piston head and the top of the cylinder area. He seems to use the perfect amount of water in this video. TOO much water can be bad though. Good job there!
thecacaman1 2 years ago
so what does this do to your engine can some one explain
chuyvenegas 2 years ago
I always thought only a Toyota floor mat would hold the throttle open for you. LOL
valleyfever 2 years ago 2
r u sure this is the right way to clean a motor ????
clemenza313 2 years ago
@clemenza313, Yes this works. If you are adding too much water while the car is idling, the most that would happen is that your engine shuts off. If you are accelerating at all while adding too much number, your engine can hydrolock and become destroyed. He seems to use the perfect amount of water here.
thecacaman1 2 years ago 2
get some SeaFoam, use it with the same methods in video...much safer for the engine and cleans alot better...whatever is left over you dump into your gas tank.
oilfield666 2 years ago
@clemenza313, SeaFoam actually works great. It also puts on a huge smoke show that makes other people around you wonder what the heck is going on. I loved seeing their expressions on their faces. The thing is, that SeaFoam sometimes works TOO good. My friend used SeaFoam on his old Nissan Truck, and ever since, he's been blowing a little blue smoke and buring a bit of oil, and leaks a tiny bit too. Sometimes hard gunk holds your seals together and SeaFoam removes that hard gunk.
sageuvagony 2 years ago 4
I used a similar thing in the UK called REDEX. That puts on the same smoke show and RUINS the engine. There is no way I would ever use that stuff again.
urbex2007 2 years ago
i just did seafoam yesterday to my 99 ranger pick up. it runs smooth as can be now. i didnt add it to my oil though. cas im afraid some gunk is holding the oil in so imma wait till seafoam again when i got to change the oil
jsjclucas 2 years ago
@sageuvagony Happened to me. I was burning a little oil before seafoam and afterward I'm burning a lot. Not the result I wanted.
fleckx 1 year ago
@fleckx Bad valve seals?
akirafactor 1 year ago
@clemenza313 hell no this isnt the right way, that water would steam the oil off the cylinder walls and do more harm then good to your piston rings, way to go sageuvagony now your gonna need a new set of piston rings and O2 sensor alot sooner now
hondamagnaperformanc 1 year ago
Is this kind of like a diesel purge in diesel vehicles?
VAktmracer 2 years ago
When does honda ever cool anything coming out of the exhaust?
Hanmin253 2 years ago
Combustion has water as a byproduct.... Water and CO2 I believe? This should be fine, You will not hydrolock your motor unless you put a great amount, enough to fill up a cylinder...
Hanmin253 2 years ago
I still don't know why Honda wants to cool what's coming OUT of the engine rather than what goes into it.
UberWagen 2 years ago
ehhhhh, i dont recommend this, too mucha nd you hydrolock your engine possibly cracking a pition or busting a rod, id rather know my engine is being held together by sledge or carbon then have it running and depending on it when its held together by crap
madberrys78 2 years ago
i need an answer a user asked before.
when i do this..., do i have to change the oild and spark plugs just after i finish or a week later or what?
Mxd03 2 years ago
I did it with a Trans am LT1, and it works great. Thank you man !
lez0urs 3 years ago
i wouldnt do this to my truck...civic yes because who cares about them... why would you introduce that amount of water to your fuel system...probably just messed up your 02 sensors as water will damage them
oilfield666 3 years ago
not if it's distilled water.
tony76ms 3 years ago
@oilfield666, Water isn't mixing with your fuel system. Water is going straight into the cylinder. Too little water is useless, too much is dangerous, and the right amount does wonders!
thecacaman1 2 years ago
just keep this in mind...water ruins o2 sensors...dumping water into your intake, will be turned into steam...after it combusts, o2 sensors soak that up
oilfield666 2 years ago
@oilfield666
O2 sensors aren't damaged by steam. When you start your car in the morning you will see white smoke (actually steam) and water droplets coming from your tail pipe as the engine burns off the water left from condensation.
R5alive 2 years ago
yes. but if you anyone about cars, anytime you blow a head gasket the 02 sensors most likely need to be replaced because of moisute damage making them read wrong. anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a complete idiot. the more effictive, and EASIER ON THE ENGINE method is pouring (slowly) seafoam into the engine. you people have no idea wtf this water will do to you valves, cylinders and rings if not COMPLETELY burnt off, that water WILL sit in bottom of intake for long time.
oilfield666 2 years ago
@oilfield666I
t's just spraying a small amount of water just like the seafoam dripping into the intake stream. Water doesn't damage O2 sensors your thinking about the antifreeze fouling the sensor with deposits (you can clean the deposits off with a torch but most shops would rather sell you a new part). The engines heat will evaporate off any water droplets (you don't do this on a cold engine and shut it off right after). Using solvents will remove carbon in bigger chunks than water.
R5alive 2 years ago
DON'T do this. I followed his steps and HYDRYLOCKED my engine. However, I have been using seafoam with no problem what so ever on my 98 civics and 04 camry. So now i need to find ways to get my car started.
aly884 3 years ago
Too much water will cause the car to die. The sprayer just happens to spray the right amount of water. Seafoam works GREAT, but isn't too good for very old cars since Seafoam works SO well, that it will remove carbon deposits in little cracks on your seals, which will expose oil leaks. Many older engines's seals are held together with carbon. Seafoam won't CAUSE a problem, it will just expose your hidden problems.
sageuvagony 3 years ago
@aly884
You can't hydrolock a running engine with a spray bottle, you would need a garden hose on full blast. You probably tried doing it on a cold engine and fouled your spark plugs.
R5alive 2 years ago
Wat problem might you have with an old engine & using seafoam?? I have a 1990 Cadillac Seville & it was previously sitting for about 5 years before I brought it back to life, I already know I have a powersteering leak any other problems that come out of using it??
Da85prince 3 years ago
water doesnt do anything good just makes steam
jayguy173 3 years ago
braver then i am.I just stick to seafoam.Also driver ur car harder you'll push all that shit out.
specialk18701 3 years ago
steam cleaning your engine is a good way to solve certain problems in your engine, but you do run the risk of putting too much water in the engine and it water locking, which is why he had the automatic sprayer, to control the water flow so its just a dribble, not a fake, a real way to do things.
clintjenkins 3 years ago
I used to work at a Chrysler dealership and the 04 minivans that have sat on the lot for a while wouldn't start on those really cold days. Then one of the salespersons had to jump start of them and was running rough and misfiring. So one of the older techs poured some water through the brake booster vacuum hose and the engine actually smoothed out! I was totally shocked! If you guys use this methond, make sure to change the engine oil and the spark plugs just to be on the safe side.
blueblade455 3 years ago
That's exactly what I did. I replaced spark plugs and oil since loose deposits of carbon start breaking loose and can foul your park plugs. Most of the carbon deposits ended up on my back bumper. My car is running SUPER smooth till this day.
sageuvagony 3 years ago
fake!.i bet you the hose is not plug into a intake manifold..
aso209 3 years ago
I take it you're retarded?
WouldTurner 3 years ago
In case it's not obvious, I'm talking to the person below me.
WouldTurner 3 years ago
Im sure this doesnt cause any harm but Im not brave enough to try it, when you drive a jeep your goal is to keep the water OUT of the engine! LOL
JeepXJforever 3 years ago
does this work on the carburated engines?
DRFTgt 3 years ago
lol just figuered this one out... after seeing a vid about broken cilinder block... man i am smart... eheh :p (noot..kidding :)
water vaporising in cilinder actualy cleans the piston
doesnt this must be done with warm engine??? :|
authmaax 3 years ago
What is the hose that you are feeding the water into?
LTF85199 3 years ago
The brake booster line. You can use any other vacuum line but the brake booster line evenly distributes the liquid to all cylinders.
sageuvagony 3 years ago
do u have to change ur cars oil after u do this or can u do this and just drive it the way it is after cleaning it
jattriskey34 3 years ago
You can pretty much use whatever you happen to be drinking at the time. I've seen guys use coffee or Mountain Dew or whatever. Anything with water in it.
MCRmechanic 3 years ago
I lol'd
Kidiot 3 years ago
i'm a mechanic and i just performed that procedure on a '02 dodge ram 1500 to break up carbon in the combustion chambers. just took the air cleaner assembly off, started the truck, and held the throttle open while pouring in (slowly mind you) about a half cup of water in each throttle body port (there were 2). worked like a charm. afterwards, just drive it about 55mph in 2nd gear to break everything loose and clear everything out. don't worry if it smokes, that's the carbon coming off.
MCRmechanic 3 years ago
so wat it cleans your engin and it makes it run like new or wat?
joab300zx 3 years ago
yup seafoam made my corolla leak
saberj2x 4 years ago
Seafoam works great, except that it sometimes works TOO great on older cards, and then causes leaks because it removes the carbon deposits that actually were keeping the car from leaking.
sageuvagony 3 years ago
I do this to my car all the time. It works great.
tony76ms 4 years ago
Nice
Kidiot 4 years ago
This has been done for a long time, ever since the carb days. The super heated water vapor breaks up carbon in the engine. Totally safe, and you cant hydrolock your engine on that kinda quantity of fluid and zero load.
Saml01 4 years ago 8
you can hydrolock on motor on zero load. we used to put a liquid carb cleaner in through a vacuum line until one student totally openend the vacuum line and it hydralocked. now we use mopar intake cleaner. stuff works great!!!
landyacht06 3 years ago
i dont know why, but this seems like a horrible idea
xtheritalinx 4 years ago 6
go to dodge and get a can of intake cleaner. its really easy to do. best with two people. just spray the cleaner directly onto the throttle body and keep the throttle open just enough to keep the engine from dying. then when the can runs out shut it off. let the car sit for a little while and feel the intake manifold, its COLD!!! then start it up ans let it idle then rev a couple times some cars smoke some don't very good stuff!!
landyacht06 3 years ago
lolz, yea me too, will it have enough time to change to steam in the combustion chamber?
LTF85199 3 years ago
Well it definitely has kept my car running super smooth till this day so I'm 100% sure the water cleaning has helped. My idle before this cleaning was rough and crappy and would cause my steering wheel to shake all over at a red light.
sageuvagony 3 years ago
excellent thanks for the reply man, i think i am going to try that on my civic, mine didnt pass the inspection. might save me from opening the engine apart and cleaning it
LTF85199 3 years ago
Not afraid of hydrolocking ??
sjokomelk 4 years ago
I had no idea you can do this...
mtlh05 4 years ago
Good deal, won't clean as good as seafoam so you won't have to worry about blowby afterwards.
MrSlowestD16 4 years ago