Easy / Effective way to clean your engine of carbon.

Put foot to floor more often and go all the way to redline like the car was built to do.

 

OK, so I live in Australia and I can't get this Seafoam over here!!! Anyone willing to buy it for me and send it over? I will pay you upfront with paypal and all the shipping. Let me know

 

I'll look in to it. Send a PM

 

That would work, if Minis weren't direct-injected. Fuel never touches the intake valves. Oooops, that's just 2nd gens. So yeah, let her rip.

 

What confuses me about this phenomenon is that the MINI does not use an EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) system at least not on the R53. This is typically the source of all the carbon that ends up in the intake system mixed with the oil from the PCV system. The carbon that goes into the crankcase from blowby is absorbed by the oil so little to no carbon should be acquired from the PCV system.

Just a realization I came to. Thought I would share this and see what people have to say.

I have used Seafoam and it makes a hellofa difference, but this didn't dawn on me till now.

People with oil catch cans, please provide feedback as to if the Seafoam treatment does much to your engines. Thank you.

 

Car was taking twice as long to start..

I finally did the seafoam!!

Here is a video :]

I wasnt going to rev it much, but then I watched your videos.... hahaha....

Poured into PCV hose, oil cap, and gas tank while engine was off.
Waited one hour.. Car finally started with the help of my foot on the gas pedal full throttle.
Started right up the second time..

Plenty of smoke filled around my car as well as my yard , ha ha ...

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....31446755&saved

 

I finally did mine a week or so ago. Mine was an absolute smoke machine, and I certainly rev the crap out of the engine often enough.

No smoke at all while pouring the seafoam directly into the throttle for 2 or 3 minutes. The car was hot so if it was seafoam burning, I don't see why it wouldn't start from the minute I started pouring. After waiting 20 minutes, it was a cloud factory.

 

be sure to change your oil soon, seafoam in the crankcase for too long = bad day

 

Not true.

 

Should I just wait untill scheduled on my dash or change it soon?

 

I know there's a difference of opinion with regard to getting an oil change after just using it through the PCV, but surely you need to get an oil change after putting it directly in the oil? I think the instructions even state this (it's been a while).

- drew

 

Instructions from the Seafoam website: http://www.seafoamsales.com/

Cleaning Engine Sludge From the Crank Case

To clean built-up oil residues and contamination from the crank case, add 1½ oz. Sea Foam to each quart of engine oil.
Sea Foam will slowly re-liquefy residues and suspend contaminants for easy removal.

Change oil and replace filter when dirty.

Cleaning Lifters and Oil Rings

To clean oil rings and lifters, add 1½ oz. Sea Foam to each quart of oil. Sea Foam will slowly re-liquefy the old oil varnish residue that builds up
on lifters and rings and prevents them from functioning normally. This process can be done as part of a pre service cleaning by adding the Sea Foam to the oil at least 30 miles before the next oil change interval.

OR it can be done as a preventative maintenance process without changing the oil. You can leave Sea Foam in the oil indefinitely
as long as the oil is clean. The addition of a high-detergent oil like Sea Foam may cause the oil to become dirty faster than normal
as buildup oil residue and contamination are cleaned.

Check the oil at regular intervals and when it gets dirty, change it.

Hope this helps...

 

Yes, these are the instructions from Sea Foam, however, in my car, I will not run sea foam in the crank case, ESPECIALLY as hard as I drive it. You're diluting the oilmwith sea foam.

 

Thank You fellas, Im changing it in a few days.

 

i have to do this! i bet loads of smoke are going to spit out of mine

 

gonna go try this right now!

 

So I ran half a bottle of Seafoam through the PCV valve and waited an hour before I started the mini back up. When I went to rev the engine, not a puff of smoke came out! It can't be that clean because it's an '03 with 80,000+ miles on it.. is there something wrong?

 

If you are using a top tier gasoline you will not gain much of anything with a seafoam treatment as the R53 is not a direct-injection engine. The intake valves do not get carboned up like the R56 does.

 

Since ive had the car (Febuary 2010) ive been using mid to high grade fuel, but im pretty sure the owner before me didnt. Sometimes it dips below 700 RPM when idling and it also kinda sputters at times like when im stopped at a light. Im hoping this corrects the problem cause ive also ran fuel injector cleaners in the gas too.