Redline SI-1 Complete Fuel System Cleaner is AWESOME STUFF!

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this is what terry stated:bruce, I am funnin with your "no flame suit, been at this too long" comment thus the flamers above.

My "personal" experience is based on testing both in a proprietary status for the makers of fuel adds and that of our automotive oil analysis results, so 04SpecV I suppose you could say my bias is aimed at what works.

I am currently working two new different fuel add companies products that if they aren't like most the junk I see would be recommended to my customers in lieu of FP3000 if it is never marketed.

My bias is and always has been to share with my customers what works! Techron works and FP works, thats about all I see work. Techron will not lower Nox in the analysis results I look at like FP will for the same dollar and dosage. The proprietary lubricating qualities of FP exceed any known fuel add.

Chevron is a top notch product and if you were here or at Noria back 6 or 7 years ago, I mentioned them and Conoco as having some new and neato base oils that would revolutionize automotive lubes for the average consumer. I think hydrocracking did that in spades. I also hammered Chevron for sitting on the marketable/affordable/profitable technology for about 20 years before that.

If I am biased then who you gonna trust ?

LCD, inc's testing and product production capabilities are a function of capitolization and I have only tested for them independently, I don't own or control them.

The testing they did recently disclosed to EPA from SWRI were very
 
I've had excellent results using Redline SL-1...I use it when I'm out of Amsoil PI. If you use the maintenance dose you won't see any problems with elevated lead levels. If you use a full bottle of any strong solvent it's possible to briefly get a high enough concentration of cleaner in the crankcase (before it has a chance to evaporate) to get a spike in lead levels.

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lookie what i picked up today
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whats the best way to work this product? I am running real low on gasoline right now...the gas light has been on for 25 miles or so, it's pretty close to being empty....should I pour the whole bottle in with very little gas? then fill it up all the way with gas? how about driving procedure?
 
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lookie what i picked up today
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whats the best way to work this product? I am running real low on gasoline right now...the gas light has been on for 25 miles or so, it's pretty close to being empty....should I pour the whole bottle in with very little gas? then fill it up all the way with gas? how about driving procedure?


Pour the bottle in, fill up the car and drive anyways you want.
 
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If you use the maintenance dose you won't see any problems with elevated lead levels.

My experience has been that you CAN see very elevated levels of 'soft' metals (i.e. copper) when it's used at the maintenance dose. However, if you have no fuel dilution issues or blow-by, you likely will not.
 
I just picked up some more at AA!

I think it's the best one-tank cleaner out there! For maintenance, though, I just use Lucas UCL...
 
I picked up a bottle of this stuff at Canadian Tire today for the Sunfire. Cost $10.99. Put the whole bottle into a very nearly full tank (full tank is 15.2 gallons).
 
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No, Blazer, that is with Red Line SI-1.

How does an amine cleaner cause engine wear, it doesn't strip lubrication from anything.
 
I have heard concerns( I dont know how valid they are though) that running cleaners in fuel causes some problems with wear because if the fuel is able to make its way into the oil that a couple things could happen

Solvent removes lube front the most sensitive parts of the engine(like bearings)
Solvent directly attacks the bearing themselves since they are made of "soft" metals.

In theory it makes sense in that you dont want any that isnt lube in your oil since it wont protect your engine, and solvents are NOT good lubes as a general rule. But it shouldn't matter at all really if you have no fuel dilution problem with your engine. If everything is sealing well, there would be no chance of fuel making it into the crankcase.
 
I agree, psudaytona, in principle. However, the reason PCV systems exist is because ALL engines experience blow-by, and they ALL therefore have their oil exposed to unburned fuel. There are various degrees of this circumstance, though.

Blazer, apparently 'an amine cleaner' does compete with lubricating oil in some fashion as my experience (and Terry's according to his recent post about these kinds of products in this sub-forum) shows. Perhaps it is a corrosion-type reaction more than a large-scale lubricant strip, otherwise one might surmise that wear metals would be up across the board. Shoot, maybe they are, but the soft metal(s) just increases much, much further.

What I have seen in my own experience is that Red Line SI-1 is a very good cleaner AND that it can and will cause very large increases in soft-metals wear levels even at the maintenance dose under certain circumstances. Finding out whether these circumstances exist in your own engine is the key.
 
I have a UOA while using SI-1.. It didnt increase anything.
I think it depends on the type of oil you are using.
Just like how sometimes UOAs with Redline oil seem to show high wear at first.
 
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Keep the empty bottle. IIRC, it has ounce markings; you could store Fuel Power in it if I'm not mistaken.
 
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Steve88:
Keep the empty bottle. IIRC, it has ounce markings; you could store Fuel Power in it if I'm not mistaken.


no - I think the bottle will melt. Atleast that used to be the case.
 
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I picked up a bottle of this stuff at Canadian Tire today for the Sunfire. Cost $10.99.

Bad timing. It's on sale at CT this week for $8.79.


You can get a price guarantee and get a credit back from them.
 
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