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My BMW has 270,000 miles and this bottle here GUARANTEES an increase in horsepower.
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Is the bottle filled with nitrous oxide?
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Jan 3, 2015 15:49
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I have an oil to sell you. Its filled with literal snakes.
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Jan 3, 2015 16:41
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I used snakeoils as buttlube once. Still tossed a rod. 
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Jan 3, 2015 17:14
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cursedshitbox posted:I used snakeoils as buttlube once. I bet Rod was happy, though.
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Shouldn't you be using water-based lube for your snake anyways?
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cursedshitbox posted:I used snakeoils as buttlube once. Dude, you don't want to damage your snakes. Or your rods.
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Jan 3, 2015 17:20
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I'd go with no. When I did my engine swap the new engine needed premium, thinking I was smart I bought some of that octane booster crap and poured it in the gas tank to tide it over. It ran until I filled it up with actual premium at which point it started misfiring and I discovered the ignition wire was garbage and couldn't put out enough spark to detonate the premium fuel. So octane booster does nothing.
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Jan 3, 2015 17:36
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Octane booster bottles will raise one gallon of gas .5 octane or something absurd like that. get a gallon of toluene and mix it in your tank. theres your octane booster. Option B is buying 108 and mixing it with your premium. MrChips posted:Shouldn't you be using water-based lube for your snake anyways? BUT THIS PROTECTS AGAINST THERMAL BREAKDOWN AND HAS SUPERIOR ADDITIVES TO AVOID BUILDUPS FROM FORMING.
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Jan 3, 2015 17:39
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I know when I run Avgas in mah small block Chebbie, Ah make FAHVE HUNNERT HORSEPOWER
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Jan 3, 2015 18:24
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Slick50 was pretty good about adding plastic to your engine.
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cursedshitbox posted:BUT THIS PROTECTS AGAINST THERMAL BREAKDOWN AND HAS SUPERIOR ADDITIVES TO AVOID BUILDUPS FROM FORMING. OUR GAS CLEANS YOUR VALVES!
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Jan 3, 2015 18:43
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cursedshitbox posted:Octane booster bottles will raise one gallon of gas .5 octane or something absurd like that. Not all of them. Nulon have one that has been verified to raise a tank 5 points. Cost 30 bucks for 300ml tho. The rest of them.... you may as well piss in the tank
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Jan 3, 2015 20:04
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cursedshitbox posted:I used snakeoils as buttlube once. The radio had just started playing "Only love can hurt like this"...
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We use BG intake cleaner on DFI cars with really crudded up intake valves as a last resort before having to pull for intake and manually clean the poo poo off. Surprisingly it works really well and removes an amazing amount of cooked on crud. That build up is a pain in the rear end to remove with picks and brushes manually so a spray having any effect is pretty surprising. I've never used any other mechanic in a bottle that seemed to do much of anything aside from Stabil. That seems to work fairly well for keeping stored fuel from gumming up your carbs.
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Jan 3, 2015 22:23
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Lubegard Red is supposed to be good at making your automatic transmission behave, so say the Bobistheoilguy forum guys
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You should probably drink technoline. I hear it's like an AI afrodeziac or something, all's I know is it's good for your fro. Even better than soul glo.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:38
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Don't know about snake oil, but motor oil seems to work really well for engines.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:42
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I hear elbow grease goes a long way.
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The only "snake oil" I've seen do anything is run-rite fuel system cleaner. Of course you need a $150 machine plus shop air to use it - which is why it actually works (you run the car on it, so you have to hook it up to the fuel rail - rather than diluting it in a fuel tank). The other stuff they sell appears to be same old same old snake oil. Oh, and I guess the other non-snake oil snake oil wold be ZDDP additive when breaking in a new cam on flat tappet motors.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:48
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meatpimp posted:I bet Rod was happy, though. Nice work.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:53
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Seafoam FTW.
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leica posted:Seafoam FTW. Picked up a can of it last night, I think I remarked to the person I was with that it was like "magic in a can", which is definitely hyperbole but it really is good poo poo.
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It's been doing a great job of cleaning out the sludge in my Camry. I always have a can on hand.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:53
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Any "car wax" product is bullshit. I've tried a bunch, and all they ever do is make my car run like poo poo for a few weeks.
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Jan 5, 2015 07:34
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I like seafoam through an intake hose. Seems to do a decent job. Never had any issues with it. Also I've done 2 bottles of the 20 gallon Techron fuel injector cleaner in junkyard injector'd cars and once saw 1.7 points AFR enrichment across the board on two separate cars/setups.
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Subaru upper engine cleaner. May not fall under your definition of snake oil, but it costs similar to other useless products, and cleans the poo poo out of your engine. I think maybe it is called Seafoam elsewhere. edit: necro-beaten, like a dead red-headed stepchild
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So it's hoppy and flammable? Sign me up!
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3 shots 3-in-1 or similar light household machine oil 2 shots zippo fluid or similar napthenic fuel 1 shot isopropyl Serve in a float bowl with a garnish of your choice.
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For the seafoam, do I need to run it through the intake hose, or can I just pour it in the gas tank, fill up the rest of the way, and run it? I'm asking partially because that's the way my friend told me to run it, and partially because I have no idea where the intake hose is on my car.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:For the seafoam, do I need to run it through the intake hose, or can I just pour it in the gas tank, fill up the rest of the way, and run it? I'm asking partially because that's the way my friend told me to run it, and partially because I have no idea where the intake hose is on my car. It's not worth running through your fuel. It's just too diluted to do much of anything, and isn't going to reach many of the areas that it will by dragging it in through a vacuum hose. That's why seafoam is on the fence between snake oil and not: if used properly it actually works. But other ways not so much. Including ways described on the package.
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I tried out a bottle of Rislone recently; from the MSDS it looks like it's "mostly similar" to Seafoam though one of the smaller-concentration petrochemicals is different. You're supposed to put it in your oil (replacing an equivalent volume of engine oil) and then drive as normal. Not sure how much I trust that, but my car burns/leaks oil fast enough that it was probably out of my sump in a week. I should buy a coked-up $300 car (with an accessible valve cover, unlike my Gunma tractors) and try it out.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I should buy a coked-up $300 car (with an accessible valve cover, unlike my Gunma tractors) and try it out. I propose we use one of my spare engines and run some scientific tests 
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Motronic posted:It's not worth running through your fuel. It's just too diluted to do much of anything, and isn't going to reach many of the areas that it will by dragging it in through a vacuum hose. I was so disappointed when it didn't solve my problems after pouring a steady stream into the carb until it was gone. Turns out it wasn't exactly a stuck valve, it was a stuck valve that lost the pushrod.
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StormDrain posted:I was so disappointed when it didn't solve my problems after pouring a steady stream into the carb until it was gone. You need to use it double strength to replace pushrods.
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I can't find any pushrods in my engine, how much seafoam will I have to use to get all of my pushrods back? How badly does losing all my pushrods affect my horsepowers? Also I'm having a hard time getting these cans in my intake, everyone keeps saying to put it there but it gets stuck on the bendy part about 3 inches in, is there some trick to fitting this in here?
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I don't know if this stuff does anything, but I enjoy rotating the plastic cogs around whilst I wait for some guy to bring me incorrect oil filters.
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Anybody mention PB Blaster or WD40 yet? I love me some PB Blaster, but I hear there's another penetrating catalyst that outperforms it. What's it called?
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Horse Divorce posted:Anybody mention PB Blaster or WD40 yet? I love me some PB Blaster, but I hear there's another penetrating catalyst that outperforms it. What's it called? Kroil. Also maybe Liquid Wrench?
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