Gm top engine cleaner.....is it any good?

[AWeb80]

I was wondering how good it worked and if anyone has done it?

[sl3196]

Well I used seafoam this past weekend on both the GTP and the Cavi. Seemed to work well, made a big smoke show! I'm sure the tec works similar.

[Crimson Fury Z]

i know there are threads that have told about the t.e.c. just hop around pages in this section to find it. search might bring em up, but its sorted by date(default sorting)

[HokemBokem]

I also ran Seafoam in the Regal and Im not sure if it helped that much or not. I figured it could only do good though.

[john99gtp]

worked great for me

 

 

on both my lumina and gtp.

 

 

def. idled alot smoother afterwards

[GTPrix]

 

I have used TEC on both of my GM's now, with no complaints. Hard to tell if it helped, thought it did burn a lot of carbon from the GTP. Then, after plugs wires ran like a dream. I would say go with the GM stuff.

 

 

Drew

[Vegeta]

I am a fan of the TEC, since I compared it to the other crap but not the seafoam. DId a much better job on carbon. My friend that works on cars all day long told me that the mopar stuff is actually even better than the GM top engine cleaner.

[topless94style]

Just get a spray bottle and mix in soap and water, cheap easy and works great....

[Canada]

I use the stuff. I like it....a lot.

 

I use it in a 80/20 gas/TEC mix to flush injectors.

[digitaloutsider]

Just get a spray bottle and mix in soap and water, cheap easy and works great....

I really hope that was in reference to my April Fools prank..

[JoroCorona]

You could just fill a spraybottle full of plain water and spritz it into the TB. Motor will bog, just give it more gas. The water pritty much steam cleans the combustion chambers.

 

Then again, the TEC cleans the whole intake aswell as the combustion chambers.

 

Yuor choise.

[Prospeeder]

probably not a good idea to have water in the motor, it could hydrolock it, or rust? u see how bad it is for injectors with cheap watered down gas, this is jut as bad, if not worse

[digitaloutsider]

It would take a LARGE amount of water to hydrolock an engine.

[GP1138]

It would take a LARGE amount of water to hydrolock an engine.

 

[Vegeta]

water works, and its free.

[cutlsp]

water works hmm watch me kill my engine trying this

[Prospeeder]

is it the same as driving in a rain storm? or does the filter actually get all the water too

[Guest TurboSedan]

is it the same as driving in a rain storm? or does the filter actually get all the water too

 

not the same at all. you add the water or TEC or whatever cleaner you are using after the air filter. most people add it after the throttle body via a vacuum hose (engine vacuum sucks it all in) but you can spray it into the TB if you want to.

[black35intrigue]

water works really quite well, as long as you don't give it to much water at once, you can (very rare) shatter an intake valve due to the temp. difference. as for the TEC I've used it in all my vehicles, it tends to be hard on spark plugs, so do it before a plug change, it seems to do a nice job on carbon in the lower half of the intake & chambers, to get it all you need to take off the plenum, and clean it out, and to clean the throttle body you need to pull it off and scrub it with a brush & some TB cleaner. Carb & Choke will not work. Also, the mopar stuff called combustion chamber cleaner is no different at all, it's just in a spray can so you can spray in the TB rather than the GM pour can. I always put it in the pcv tube anyways so it doesn't matter..

[solid_raiden223]

Water++