Re: Bored surfing yields weird advice...comments?

[linus toy <linust@mindspring.com>]

> >Well, I was absently surfing today and came across a site called
> >www.overboost.com.  It's a webzine published by/for the import (mostly
> >Japanese) turbo/performance crowd.  One of the pieces of advice they
> >had posted under "No Buck Performance" was a way to clean the intake
> >tract/engine by:
> >
> >1) Getting a bucket of water or ATF
>
[SNIP]

This technique was described years ago in John Muir's tome "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" aka the Idiot Book.  (Great way for a 14 yr old to learn about cars, btw, btdt).  The theory is that, so long as you don't stall the engine, pouring water down the carb throat would send non-compressible water into the engine to know loose carbon deposits.  I did in fact use this on my folks '73 transporter (type iv motor)--much easier to do on those cars with their downdraft carbs than on today's FI-motors.
--linus