Originally Posted By: severach
Carbon is porous. You don't get much compression increase from a lot of carbon. What little you do get is trampled by the loss of timing from false knock and detonation, the loss of power and efficiency from the parasitic draw on the fuel, the loss of compression as the carbon creeps into the ring groves, and the reduction in flow as the carbon creeps along the valves and runners. If clean engines didn't perform best then the car companies and machine shops wouldn't make them that way.
No need to "think" that compression dynamics are being altered. If your engine has more than one cylinder then listen to the exhaust. A steady hum means that all the cylinders are performing the same and since substandard cylinders are unlikely to perform equally, equal performance can be assumed as being as good as a new engine. An audible beat means that some cylinders are worse than others. Keep cleaning and fixing until the beat is gone or is determined to be problems that aren't worth fixing. Once clean enough the detergents in gasoline is enough to clean the rest of the way if you're patient. I'm not.
A retarded engine runs fine though it is weak. The snowball effect is that carbon causes carbon so the more carbon you have the faster carbon grows. As they say, when going down hill you pick up speed.
Finally, someone understands me.
*cries*
Carbon is porous. You don't get much compression increase from a lot of carbon. What little you do get is trampled by the loss of timing from false knock and detonation, the loss of power and efficiency from the parasitic draw on the fuel, the loss of compression as the carbon creeps into the ring groves, and the reduction in flow as the carbon creeps along the valves and runners. If clean engines didn't perform best then the car companies and machine shops wouldn't make them that way.
No need to "think" that compression dynamics are being altered. If your engine has more than one cylinder then listen to the exhaust. A steady hum means that all the cylinders are performing the same and since substandard cylinders are unlikely to perform equally, equal performance can be assumed as being as good as a new engine. An audible beat means that some cylinders are worse than others. Keep cleaning and fixing until the beat is gone or is determined to be problems that aren't worth fixing. Once clean enough the detergents in gasoline is enough to clean the rest of the way if you're patient. I'm not.
A retarded engine runs fine though it is weak. The snowball effect is that carbon causes carbon so the more carbon you have the faster carbon grows. As they say, when going down hill you pick up speed.
Finally, someone understands me.
*cries*
