Smoking...It does a body good

The other day scratz and I saw a advertisement on the TV about how to measure your carbon foot print. Well with nothing to do, I figured out our carbon footprint and according the website we have an approximate footprint of 41.2 metric tons of CO2 per year (the site said the average is 45 metric tons). So I guess we are already being green. However, my prelude has been acting a little sluggish lately, bogging down in every gear, hesitation when you step on the accelerator and just being an all around pain in the butt. With the idea of being green and reducing our carbon footprint, I figured I better try and fix this problem. Anyway, I decided to do the old shade-tree mechanic trick of using Seafoam to clean out the carbon deposits and other junk from the engine. Now for you who haven't heard about Seafoam, it is actually intended to either be an additive to mix with your gas to clean your fuel system or to be put into the engine via the oil fill hole 10 minutes before you do an oil change to clean the tar out of your engine. Both of these process work very well for a product which was created in the '60s I believe.

In case you are wondering which way I used it, it was neither of the two previous ways mention. (who does what the instructions say anyways?) The "REAL" way to use Seafoam is not actually written on the instructions, but for you adventurous types here you go. First you locate a vacuum hose in the engine bay which connects directly into the intake manifold. You then disconnect one side of the hose, but leave the other side attached to the intake. Start the car and make sure that there is a vacuum on the hose. If there is, then stick the free end of the hose into the opened bottle of Seafoam. The engine will then suck the liquid into the intake manifold, you want to do this until about half of the can is emptied into the engine. You may need to have someone help keep the car running by working the throttle while you do this because the engine really doesn't like taking such a big drink of liquid even though it needs it. As soon as half the can of Seafoam is gone, turn off the car. Some people say you should let the car sit for 30 min to an hour to allow for the Seafoam to clean the engine out. Then once the car has had time to set, you just start the engine, rev it over and over and watch all the thick white smoke pour out of the exhaust. Once it is done smoking, you can take the car for a test drive and notice the improvements.
I know all of you are asking what the point of this blog is, well when I just did this I some how managed to forget to start the car an hour later to finish the process. I didn't just for get for a few hours or overnight, I forgot for 3 whole days. So this morning when I started my car at 0530hrs to head to work, there was this GINORMIOUS cloud of smoke. The smoke was so thick, I couldn't see out my rear window to even back out of the garage. I sat there for a minute waiting for the cloud to go away but it didn't. I decided I would risk it and back out anyways before I suffocated in my own exhaust. The best part about this stuff is the more gas you give it, the more smoke it makes. So once I was able to get out of my smoke filled driveway, I gunned it. This created a scene which is reminiscent of SpyHunter on the 64.
I could not believe the amount of smoke my car was creating. If it would have been dark outside, that would be one thing but it was bright daylight and I seriously was creating a white cloud vortex as I drove. I continued on my way to work breaking every speed limit I could just so I could make more smoke. It was like I had an endless supply. The cars I cutoff and the cars the got stuck behind me must have thought my car was on fire or about ready to explode. The only thing that could have made it even more awesome is if I had a video camera in the car to catch the look of the other drivers as this toxic smoke cloud completely enveloped their vehicles.
Here is the Official Untouched Satalight photo...(untouched like the mars photo's that is)

Unfortunately, my car stop producing this wonderful smoke screen about 3 miles into my drive. Luckily, I was able to make up the difference in my carbon output for an entire year in a matter of 10 minutes. Who's the tree-hugger now? GO GREEN, WHOOOT!!!!