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- From: bowmanj@csn.org (Jerry Bowman)
- Subject: Re: Buick Century now has power!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.163424.11640@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, OCS
- References: <C01CuH.FH9.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:34:24 GMT
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- In article <C01CuH.FH9.2@cs.cmu.edu> murthy+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sesh Murthy) writes:
- >I replaced every damn thing I could on this car. Things
- >improved but not much.
- >
- >Finally I decided to decarbonize using the water in the
- >carburettor method. I poured in (using an old dishwashing
- >liquid bottle) about 1 quart of water into the carburettor
- >in a steady stream keeping engine rpm high enough not to
- >stall. At the end of this I drove the car about 10 miles
- >to get rid of any water that may have remained.
- >
- >The car feels GREAT. I can accelerate really fast, I can spin the
- >wheels and overall the car is really smooth now. Finally this
- >car is drivable. It seems to have something like its rated 110 HP.
- >
- >Thanks to all the peole who suggested this.
- >
- >I think the surging was because the knock sensor was sensing the
- >knocking and retarding the spark. Then it would try again. Now
- >this is gone. This probably also accounted for the low power
- >previously. (If it had not been for the computer I would have
- >heard the knocking and done this earlier.)
- >
- >So how exactly does this decarbonizing work? Is it necessary only
- >on American cars? (I took the head off a Honda Civic 1.3 L and it
- >had no carbon on it at 100,000 miles.) Why did my car have all
- >this carbon anyway? (it has 104000 miles.)
- Now that you like the way it runs do yourself a favor. Get yourself a
- Ware Vapor Injection System. They are very inexpensive. They will keep
- carbon build up from happening again. They advertise better mileage more
- power and all that too but the only real advantage I can see is keeping
- the cobustion chambers clean enough to eat out of.>
- >Sesh Murthy
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