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    Carbon buildup

    Interesting. The instructions have you spraying that stuff right into the throttle body. So you removed your plugs and sprayed some of that down into the plug wells onto the piston tops? Then let it just sit there and soak?
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    Carbon buildup

    I've heard that water can work wonders to get rid of carbon deposits. I'm not sure how it works to do that and would like to know the mechanism involved. How much water applied how many times is required to break down heavy deposits? I'm getting some techron on the way and will just go ahead...
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    Carbon buildup

    Copy that. I think I will try the less harsh detergents first like Techron and get the car on at least a 75 mile drive. I can pick a piston and keep an eye on it over time. Easy enough to pull a plug and have a look at it. If I don't get forward progress I'll look at something like B12. I've...
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    Carbon buildup

    I don't live in MT any more and even when I did live there most around town driving was fairly short trips. Running expensive racing tires that are good for 3000 miles most of the time, plus the hassle of swapping them out, tends to steer me away from long highway trips for the most part. I'm...
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    Carbon buildup

    Hi. Are there any additives that would be good choices for aggressively attacking carbon buildup? I have some buildup on the piston crown visible through the plug wells and I imagine the valves probably don't look much better. It's tough to tell how thick it is from a top down view but on some...
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    ACN91 (Arizona, California, & Nevada 91 Octane)

    To add. I have a boosted gen1 coyote car and when I lived in montana was able to run the current tune with exxon 91 fuel and had no issues. After moving to the reno/sparks nevada area I filled up with (expensive) shell 91 and saw knock retard in the data log. Pulling as much as 2 degrees during...
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    Three cars, same oil?

    Thanks guys. Just from a logistical standpoint it makes things easier to use the same in all 3. Next time I put a new fill in, will switch over.
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    Three cars, same oil?

    I have three cars one of which takes 5w30. 2005 subaru LGT. My other two cards are Fords. 2014 mustang 5.0 and a 2009 focus 2.0 duratec. Both these cars have been on 5w20. The mustang for 14,000 miles and the focus for 64,000. Drivertrain warranty is expired or invalid on both. It is easier to...
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    Does octane booster work?

    Does anyone know what the shelf life of the MMT additives like Lucas is? I can't find anything on their site. I personally wouldn't run it all the time however I have used a bottle of it on half a tank of fuel when I was at the race track for a little extra insurance when driving it hard. E85...
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    o2 sensor poisoning

    Well my pride is damaged but thankfully that is it. Done this many times before with no issue. Had the front end up sitting on ramps. Was lifting the rear end up with a floor jack. Somehow this ended up pulling the front end back far enough the car rolled right down the ramps. If I hadn't left...
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    o2 sensor poisoning

    I could try that but I have no guarantee it would achieve the result I need. I'd rather not ruin a couple expensive sensors. I can't contest that by ruining them there is a possibility the monitors might pass. That said I've read of people who had poisoned their sensors and the result was a CEL...
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    Oil catch can opinions

    I have breathers on both my valve covers and also use a breather on the oil cap too. So far not much mess to clean up. I had to clean the filter on the oil cap breather once so far in 3000 miles. This is with numerous street pulls and a couple dozen passes at the race track. When I installed...
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    o2 sensor poisoning

    The situation is confused. It does say OEM specified on the packaging. And yet they make a whole other part number for "sensor safe". And if you look at the amazon page for the red stuff you can see in the description it states sensor safe properties. But wait. Scroll down on the same page and...
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    o2 sensor poisoning

    Where are you seeing that? The sensor safe stuff I thought was the orange 81422.
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    o2 sensor poisoning

    It is a 6R80 car and the standard ones (non j style) don't clear the transmission pan with the sensor threaded in. Tried those already.
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