Ok, here is what I tell everyone about this subject.

FI Cleaner is like 90% alcohol(sp) so why buy tit for $2-3 when you can use rubbing alchol from wal-mart for $.98 a bottle.

I use rubbing alchol once every 6 months and have no problems. I pour in asmall bottle on half a tank. then fill it up. then runt he tank down to below 1/4, then fill it up. and go from there.

It will clean the FI better then any cleaner you can buy and it will burn just slightly hotter for a few days and clean the sparkplugs and the rest of the fuel system.

Anyways. thats my $.02 I have been doing it for 5 years now and have had no problems.


BTW if you do this a bottle of rubbing alchol will have a % number on it. get the highest % you can find. I have found no higher then 97%

 

Why haven't the FI producers figured this out? I can't believe that rubbing alcohol can be better than a purpose produced chemical. I'm not saying it won't work but it seems too simple.

 

hrmm... I'm going to have to do some chemistry research on that one.

- Nathan

 

Not to bust you on this idea but not all fuel components of a gasoline engine car are compatible with alcohol. I'm concerned because my college's engineering project involved turning a gas engine into an E85-compatible one. Granted, you're not using that rubbing alcohol very often but I wonder if the additives in those fuel system cleaners help make that alcohol compatible in gas engines. Plus, what if the alcohol is just an inert product and the 10% of the product is what does the cleaning? I'm not a chemical engineer but how do we know alcohol's what's cleaning these injectors anyway?

 

If you made a product that sold for $2-3 a bottle vs a product that did the same job that sold for $.98 a bottle would you tell anyone its the same thing?

 

1) From personal experiance and useage.

2) It helps break up the composits that build up.

3) it burns a little hotter and helps remover the deposits.



I amnot saying anyone HAS to do it this way. but it sure works the same if not better and alot cheaper.


Whatever floats your boat.

 

Any experiences on STP?

 

Stick with Valvoline SynPower Full Fuel System Cleaner

 

for 1-2 bucks more...i'm goin w/ the chevron stuff

 

Where exactly can I buy the Valvoline SynPower Full Fuel System Cleaner, and how much $$??