Terra clean good practice?

[Burnzybubbles]

Pretty sure it won't clean your swirl flaps, not unless they are in the exhaust side, not familiar with the s8 engine, but terra clean is a petrol additive and as such won't touch anything the petrol doesn't, and as your engine is direct injection, all it will clean is the combustion chamber and maybe parts of the exhaust

[Norretal]

Originally Posted by Burnzybubbles

Pretty sure it won't clean your swirl flaps, not unless they are in the exhaust side, not familiar with the s8 engine, but terra clean is a petrol additive and as such won't touch anything the petrol doesn't, and as your engine is direct injection, all it will clean is the combustion chamber and maybe parts of the exhaust

Pretty much summed up what I said but in a much better style, cheers

[Burnzybubbles]

Originally Posted by Norretal

Pretty much summed up what I said but in a much better style, cheers

I didn't see your reply until after I posted

But yea we're on the same wavelength, terra clean can probably be good in some instances on certain engines but the v10 isn't one of them, even so you'd probably have the same results from using a big can of sea foam in the engine

[Norretal]

Originally Posted by Burnzybubbles

I didn't see your reply until after I posted

But yea we're on the same wavelength, terra clean can probably be good in some instances on certain engines but the v10 isn't one of them, even so you'd probably have the same results from using a big can of sea foam in the engine

No problem at all, like I said, you summed it up well, your response was spot on

[ainarssems]

never really getting up to temperature

They do have electrical heating element in them so should be getting up to temp anyway.

Like others say terraclean will not do anything to intake on FSI engine as it will be injected directly in the cylinder. There are other cleaning methods that electrically split water into oxygen and hydrogen and feed in in the intake but I don't know how effective they are. Best effect probably achieved by mechanical cleaning.

[Delboy]

Does anyone know what the third option shown does on the terraclean link posted.

It claims to be a system for cleaning DI engine like the fsi engines.

Even if it does, where does all that crap go, if it loosened a big lump of carbon that would have to go past the valves get compressed during compression stroke then fired out the exhaust and then meet the cat's???

I do think mechanical cleaning is the only sensible way to go and I may invest in a setup to blast the posts in mine.

It also allows the access to determine the health of the change over flaps at the same time.

[Mechcanico Lee]

Mitsubishi do a machine for cleaning the backs of the valves for there GDI engines that suffered with valve carbon build up , it is a air fed pressure nozzle that uses .... wait for it ...... crushed nuts .... crushed Brazil nut cases to be exact , close the valves give em a blast then vaccum out any debris .

Don't want dirty valves or dirty manifolds ?? Get rid of the Black Death maker ..... EGR

[Norretal]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

They do have electrical heating element in them so should be getting up to temp anyway.

The sensors do, but he was referring to the exhaust gasses they measure, as in the engine doesn't run really hot for long periods, which I understand, guilty as charged

[Burnzybubbles]

Here you go for you V10 owners

http://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-hap...oogle.co.uk%2F

Looks like preventative maintenance is making sure your breather system is working properly and giving it a good blast every now and again

[Norretal]

Originally Posted by Burnzybubbles

Here you go for you V10 owners

http://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-hap...oogle.co.uk%2F

Looks like preventative maintenance is making sure your breather system is working properly and giving it a good blast every now and again

Had mine MOT'd a couple of weeks ago and the guy who looks after it for me said "You really need to drive this more, and harder!" as the pre-cat lambda sensors were fouled due to never really getting up to temperature, so I was told. He'd checked the set up and the engine was running at the correct mixture so he had to remove them, de-coke them, take it for a blast, and the emissions returned to what would be expected. At least that's how I understood what had gone on when it failed the MOT at first