I have about 35000 miles on my car and I was wondering what to do to clean the carbon off the pistons. I use shell V-powee 93 octane fuel only since buying th car new, but does anybody know of a way to clean out any carbon buildup that might be in there?

 

Fuel system cleaner

 

seafoam

 

I was looking more for a procedure than a product, but it is still early.

 

haha, i can see him seafoaming it, not knowing what ensues, haha.

 

pour seafoam into oil right before an oil change. it takes car of all the carbon build up which will be shooting white smoke from your exhaust. also pour some into your gas. the can says how much to use

 

I know white smoke pours out of it for about 20 minutes or so.

 

If you pour seafoam into your oil and get crazy smoke out of your exhaust you have SERIOUS engine problems.

 

i just slowly poured about half a bottle into a vacuum line, with the engine running, and took it for a drive. made my own smoke screen, haha. the smoke doesn't last very long, but the motor felt smoother after that.

 

you fail...the white smoke is the carbon build up being cleaned out of the engine

 

Thats the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Please explain to me how oil gets from the crankcase into the combustion chamber. I understand if you are pouring it into the fuel, but your first comment was to pour it into the oil filler. Seriously, answer that for me.

 

whoops...my bad i forgot to type about pouring it into the vacuum line as well. lol sorry

 

Just curious guys, what line are yall pouring it into?

 

WRONG, there will be white smoke ONLY if you add it through the vacuum line, gas tank, brakebooster line or throttle. IF you add seafoam to oil ONLY there will be no smoke because the engine is sealed from inside.

He was saying that if you put seafoam in oil ONLY and get white smoke then you have a problem which he is right since there should be no way seafoam or oil should escape out of the engine other than the drain plug.

Adding seafoam into the gas tank or vacuum lines will clean up the carbon build up in the cylinders and that is what this guy is looking for.

Brakebooster line, throttle... or the easiest one the gas tank... just make sure there is not a lot of gas else it won't be as effective.

 

i just popped the line coming into the supercharger off and poured it there, may have not been the right place, but damn if it didn't work!

 

saying "you fail" is so ghey and disrespectful...

 

lol

Sounds good. I have what's called a ventilation hose coming off the back of the motor going to the turbo, I then have a small line going from the FPR into the intake manifold. And another one going straight into the intake manifold.

 

yeah, i figured as long as it got all in there, it could do it's thing. kinda shadetree, but w/e

 

Brake booster line should be the easiest, pop it off and slowly pour in while engine is running....

here is a pic, not a cobalt but it looks similar


Right side of the engine near the firewall.

 

Which is the vac line on the 2.0? pic by any chance?

thanks huge..

 

x2. Never looked into this before but i have 82,000km on the car and i want to keep it going smooth as much as possible.

 

can some one do a how too with step by step and pictures??

 

woo dawgies, get ready for the smoke screen, works like a charm though, i will say that!

 

here is a how to which is located in out "How To Section".
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/how-guide-43/how-seafoam-ss-sc-111878/

 

meth/water injection =p
or just pour water down
like back in the day
when the drag was at
its infancy