For Those Of Us Who Have Fuel Injection in our C1 & C2
08-02-2023, 06:48 PM
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For Those Of Us Who Have Fuel Injection in our C1 & C2
I have a Holley EFI Fuel Injection Throttle Body.
A guy at the car show had a 57 Chevy with a Holley EFI throttle body. He told me you need to add fuel injector cleaner to your gas tank each year to keep the injectors clean.
He recommended to add SeaFoam to your gas tank every six months.
Is this over-kill ?? Do WE really need to do this with our EFI fuel injectors???
A guy at the car show had a 57 Chevy with a Holley EFI throttle body. He told me you need to add fuel injector cleaner to your gas tank each year to keep the injectors clean.
He recommended to add SeaFoam to your gas tank every six months.
Is this over-kill ?? Do WE really need to do this with our EFI fuel injectors???
08-02-2023, 08:15 PM
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do you do that with your daily drivers?
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08-02-2023, 10:46 PM
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Absolutely not. I have over 60K miles on my LS swapped/ Holley EFI '72 Suburban and have had zero injector issues.....even with the ethanol gas. The truck has sat in storage through multiple 6+ month deployments with no issues. I did at one point pull the 4 injectors from the throttle body and hook them up to a battery and a pressurized fuel injector cleaner source just to see. The spray pattern was as new.
08-03-2023, 09:08 AM
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I run a MSD system and use Mobile 93 oct.
Never a problem.
I think your buddy is useing cheap fuel.
Never a problem.
I think your buddy is useing cheap fuel.
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08-03-2023, 10:50 AM
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I think that’s left over logic from the 80s when fuel injection was first becoming mainstreamed and fuel wasn’t really formulated with fuel injection in mind. Cleaning fuel injectors became a popular thing in mechanics shops for awhile but the petroleum industry picked up the ball with updated additive packages that have all but eliminated the problem of fouled injectors from what I can tell.
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08-03-2023, 11:53 AM
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I’m just gonna use good quality gas when I get the ProFlo 4 system up and running. My Tundra has 221,000 miles on it and my toyota buddy put a can of BG44 in the tank when I had the the truck in for a transmission flush. I didn’t notice any difference in how the truck ran.
08-03-2023, 12:29 PM
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235,000 miles on a Dodge Dakota. Have used 87 oxygenated for its entire life. Occasionally sits three months at a time. Nary an injector issue.