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Originally Posted by CC Performance
At 68,000 miles my LS1 was so caked that it was performing a lot slower than it was being new.. the detonation would throw the car into the low octane table while going down the track... it was like a parachute being deployed
BUt that was with a cam and a lot of rpms all the time... The clean air return was a bad setup...
Yes if you your not going to keep the car 50k or more chances are you wont care and wont notice but if your in it for the long haul.. its a good idea to keep the valves and intake tract clean
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I"m no expert obviously. But my gut tells me there isn't enough oil getting through to the pistons to detonate.
How many times per minute does each cylinder fire?
I put my blower on with 20k+ miles on my car. Yes, I had a lot of oil in it. I took pics and posted them up. I bought a catch can because of it, and I am NOT speaking as if I am an expert. But if you figure a cup of oil every 5k miles or so I'm not so sure that's goint to hurt anything. I can't see that the cilynders allow so much oil per stroke in as to cause a detonation condition.
I bought mine mainly because of my supercharger. Tracy's supercharger info was enough for me to play it safe when I did my blower. I got the catch can and so I'm ok. But also because I have been wrong plenty of times before and it is an inexpensive measure. I"m just thinking out loud.
Build-up of oil can't be good. But that's what seafoam is for.
And as far as the big car companies not making them......... why the hell would they make one? It's preventative for WAY after your warranty expires.
(jk)