slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

[Camaro Dom]

ok, so, damn those k&n filters... over oiled mine and it fouled up the maf sensor. no biggie tho, i got some carb cleaner and maf sensor cleaner and took off my throttle body. sprayed off the maf sensor and then went to the t/body and it looked nice and pretty in teh front but in the back (after the thottle plate) it looked terrible. thick carbon deposits all over it and in my intake. i sprayed and wiped off what i could in the body and got as far as i could into the intake but DAMN. i used the whole can and i looked in there and it was STILL nasty. Is there a way of cleaning all that crap out without spraying 5 cans of carb cleaner into my intake?
btw, now that i got the maf sensor all clean, it made a HUGE difference. the idle isnt NEARLY as rough and my throttle response is spot on again. no more huge power boost at 4000 rpms. its nice 'n smooth the whole way thru.

[slow6]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

1 P&P intakes
2 !EGR
3 put stock filter back on
I'm Just kidding about that cause its not a great idea, but it would work

[Camaro Dom]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

yeah is that NORMAL? should there be all that carbon there? i was figuring cuz of the egr and the fact that my engine is 100k miles old it'd be dirty but now i'm curious...

[97rs4life]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

yea they get that bad. It happens with that many miles. Some people seafoam their engine to try and get rid of that built up carbon

[hockeyman]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

Does the EGR really make that much of a carbon buildup difference?
If it does, I'll look into deleting it.

[slow6]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

of course it does make that much carbon buildup
it can screw up the gaskets
no matter how much carb/choke cleaner you spray I dont think its gonna go away! it lingers
It would not be smart to delete the EGR cause the thing gives you better gas mileage

[Camaro Dom]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

i REALLY wish i woulda gotten pictures of this stuff fer u guys. seriously, it was like a good 1/8 inch of pure carbon baked on there. and the kicker is... i DID do a seafoaming earlier this year. sucked half the bottle in thru the brake booster vacuum line just like everyone said to do. seems the only thing that i can really do is take it off and give it a good solvent "bath"... or p&p it haha

[97rs4life]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

if you have it off, minds just p&p it then, gain a few ponies and it gets cleaned good

[slow6]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

I dont recommend P&Ping intakes, because it might throw your AFR off.

[BobbyZ72]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

Egr has nonthing to do with engine warm up. Actually its there to cool the engine by reducing combustan temps. I have totally removed my with zzproformance egr delete kit, my gas milage has remaind the same, and i swear i notice more power while driving.

[slow6]

Re: slimy icky stuff in my upper intake...

intake air > cooler > EGR air