luder_5555

so last week my CEL in the lude came on and it figured out that it was the egr valve, i talked to a couple guys and they said, well you can take it off and try to clean it out, but you prolly got to buy a new one which is about $200. i asked if it was bad for the engine to run it and they said the only bad thing is it would pollute a little more, other that that its fine.

so i came up with the idea well lets try seafoam first not wanting to spend unneeded money.....nothing still on. ok well if is part of the exhaust what if i get it really hot and it blows hard it could blow any gunk out. so i took it out found some open road, hit vtec in first up hrough second up to near the top of third. slowed back down did it again, again, again, let it do a little cool down, turned it off back on, and the light has been off for two weeks, so i guess it did it?

so i guess that every once in a while the car just needs to be run the way it was made to.

if any one has any objections let me know, or if i have done something horrible and my car is bout to splode let me know but she runs perfectly and she seems happy that i finally gave her a workout instead of the s, i think she was a little jealous...

WAFlowers

An Italian tuneup! Every car needs one of these occasionally esp. if you otherwise baby a thoroughbred.

AeroS2000

what my mechanic said too. he said when you buy a car from old people, you have to take it to the highway and floor it to burn some shit out

luder_5555

ya any time i go a while without running either car hard, the first time i do gunit good up through the top of vtec it sucks to be behind me.

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jonner

Always good to bring it to the top of the revs to clean out most of the bulid up of carbon in the exhaust....

R3DS2K

cruising at low revs will build up carbon. im sure the seafoam was what did the trick. high revs/wot dont engage the egr system anyways

R3DS2K

thats not so true nowadays. ecus can re tune them selfs for your driving habits. your mechanic is old school since times has changed and so have mechanic . they are called technicians now .

neveronlines2k

Its not the case even with older cars (well depending on milage) if you get a car from an older couple that has a ton of miles and has been driven gingerly since new and then you jump on it...... BOOM!!!!

Ask me how I know