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Hi
I was watching the current series of Whealer Dealers last night...where the buy, fix up and sell on cars. This one they bought a Jag XK and did a carbon clean, via a machine which connected via the fuel rail. The machine used two different solutions one for cleaning pre combustion - manifold, injectors and the other cleaned post combustion. It went through an hours program with the car running on these two fluids - fuel pump on car deactivated. They said it is a brand new method for doing carbon cleans.
Made a massive difference to the emissions etc on a before and after test.
I was wondering if anyone had heard/seen this before? if it might be a cheaper/quicker solution to our carbon build up issues???

I'm just about to watch that episode now, will try and catch the name of the machine.

This looks like the equipment - Terraclean engine de-carbonizing treatment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VCuki_-vXQ

Rigsby1208 wrote:Hi
I was watching the current series of Whealer Dealers last night...where the buy, fix up and sell on cars. This one they bought a Jag XK and did a carbon clean, via a machine which connected via the fuel rail. The machine used two different solutions one for cleaning pre combustion - manifold, injectors and the other cleaned post combustion. It went through an hours program with the car running on these two fluids - fuel pump on car deactivated. They said it is a brand new method for doing carbon cleans.
Made a massive difference to the emissions etc on a before and after test.
I was wondering if anyone had heard/seen this before? if it might be a cheaper/quicker solution to our carbon build up issues???

*Wheeler

The gains were a massive 9HP and 7ft/lbs!
I don't think this will help the B7, it's direct injection and the carbon'd areas aren't wetted by the modified fuel. I could be horribly wrong...

Bumping this as one of the new members was asking about it in the new members area. What bam_bam says sounds right to me, but I know feck all really.

Anyone tried it?

Is it more useful and the DIP3/air intake stuff in the FAQs?

That sucker mechanic that does all the free labour for Mike said a carbon clean on a V8 is about £60-70 iirc.

That would be a N/A non FSi V8, I'm not sure it is designed for FSI engines

bam_bam wrote: I don't think this will help the B7, it's direct injection and the carbon'd areas aren't wetted by the modified fuel. I could be horribly wrong...

having not seen the video, I'd say this is bang on. Although again, I don't know what the process is in the video. If they are hooking into 'the fuel rails' on an MPI car, then it's a non-starter. Won't help the Rs4's most common carbon problem (valves etc which are not touched by fuel per bambam)

Unless it unleashes magic scrubbing fairies, that survive the atomization process in FSI and then go back towards the intake valves etc and do their work. Then it might be worth considering.

sakimano wrote:Unless it unleashes magic scrubbing fairies, that survive the atomization process in FSI and then go back towards the intake valves etc and do their work. Then it might be worth considering.

Don't rule it out, it is an Ameri-CAN invention after all. So with their strength of marketing hype, any/everything is possible. Besides, I'd buy something that promises enslaved scrubbing fairies clean your engine, wouldn't you?