09-12-2018, 09:58 PM | #29 |
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By the time I have to worry about a gradual loss of HP that is actually noticeable, it'll be well past the warranty and getting close to it either being sold or traded-in.
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09-13-2018, 08:02 AM | #30 |
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My wife and I had a 2014 Audi A4 with GDI. We bought it in 2016 with 19k miles on it from a private party seller. She was a older (50'ish woman). The car was immaculate and had every single fuel receipt and maintenance procedure documented (by local Audi dealer). We had the car for 3 months (put about 1,000 miles on it), before it left my wife stranded on the side of the road. It was misfiring so badly it wouldn't even idle. We had it towed into the dealership where they advised us about the issues that GDI motors have. It required the heads to be removed and the valves/valve seats be cleaned.
I was not happy about this at all. I couldn't believe that Audi built a motor that only lasted 20K miles before it had to be torn apart. The service manager advised us to "often and regularly" run it to redline in order to prevent such rapid build up in the future. We kept the car for another 6 months and sold it (due to a myriad of other annoying issues with it). I'm praying that the LT1 does not suffer the same premature degradation in performance and reliability.
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09-13-2018, 09:27 AM | #31 |
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What's comical is that guys will spend more money on car care products, leather conditioner, wax, etc than a catch can would cost even though "it will be a trade in after warranty" - those same owners denounce the benefits of a catch can without ever having tried one...if you run one, you know what they catch, and why you would rather not have that going through your intake tract and across your intake valves.
After seeing the GM truck V8's with intakes off, I run one, even if the benefit is only slight - it's certainly not causing my engine to run worse.
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09-13-2018, 09:43 AM | #32 | |
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Sure, why not?
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What can we do to help prevent this? can of seafoam every few fill ups, or catch can our only hope?
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09-13-2018, 10:14 AM | #35 |
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I put a catch can on at 10,000 miles and pulled my intake for porting at 12,000 and there was a little amount of deposits on valves and intake ports on heads had a golden brown film on them. When I removed the intake the there was no signs of oil inside. So catch cans do work very well. Fuel additives will not help sense there is no fuel running threw the intake manifold. |
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I need to check out a catch can. I had one on my 2002 C5 and was amazed at the crap that was in the can between oil changes. For the seafoam I was meaning using it like the GM top end cleaner
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09-13-2018, 10:33 AM | #37 |
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I am unfamiliar. Does that mean spraying it into the air intake?
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09-13-2018, 10:58 AM | #39 |
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Only temporarily erratic, I assume. Sounds like a good idea to me. Are there down sides to doing this?
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What is a decent catch can to buy with all the routing hoses? I am at 10k miles now. Also what about using a can of GM top end engine cleaner?
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Can't say I've used the GM top end engine cleaner but I assume it would work like the Seafoam treatment.
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