Red Line 60103 SI-1 Complete Fuel System Cleaner - 15 Ounce- Fuel Injector Cleaner and Carburetor Cleaner for Corrosion Prevention and Injector, Valve, and Combustion Chamber Deposit Removal

I have had several cars and I have come upon Redline's reputation as perhaps THE premier maker of synthetic lubes; (*cue: AMSOIL trolls, chime in now.) After doing a lot of extensive reading about motor oil on Bob Is The Oil Guy (Google it,) I became convinced that Redline was perhaps THE best oil; and while there is no "best oil," If I was going to spend big money on oil or simply wanted the best, I would choose Redline for its proven reputation with its oils, AND HAVE REMAINED SO EVEN WITH SLIGHT FORMULATION CHANGES (Read up on API SN and how it differs from API SM and API SL, etc, there is less of what was known to be the good stuff and it has been replaced with new good stuff, /endrant) - Or, perhaps, Royal Purple for a high performance, specialty oil. Honorable mentions to Mobil 1 and Pennzoil for ultra good oils as well (do you see what I did there?) On the fence about many others; nothing "wrong" with them, but why buy Castrol... That said, this review is not about motor oil. It is about fuel system treatment. And Redline SI-1 specifically, at that! Now let me tell you why I like this Redline product... Firstly: PEA. I forget what PEA stands for, but, as far as I know, it is about the ONLY chemical or ingredient in a fuel system cleaner or injector cleaner - four categories? Well, if it goes in the fuel, then it goes where the fuel goes... So get the strongest one....... - that ACTUALLY CLEANS. Let us make a list of those that are a SHAM, and really DONT have ANYTHING of VALUE in them: - STP - Slick 50, OLD AND NEW formula.. - Lucas (there, I said it. I have some experiences as well as research with products from this company, not relevant to this review.) - Prestone - Pro-Long - SEAFOAM (!!!) - "Most of the shelf".. money-wasters.. makes Walmart happy.. -- WHY? BECAUSE THYEY DO NOT HAVE PEA, or VERY LOW AMOUNTS but more like NOT, if you look at Product Data Sheets. Labels lie. Product Material Data Sheets? They don't lie. Now, back to WHAT WORKS: I have found that there are only three, criterion: HIGH IN PEA, therefore WORKS... - Gumout with REGANE (Regane is the PEA, three GUMOUT products have it: The All-In-One, the High Mileage, and another yellow liquid version, High Mileage is Orange and All In One is amber) - Royal Purple MaxClean (** HAS PEA; just different chemicals to MAKE it PEA;) - Redline SI-1. ^^ Now.. Out of these three, Redline has the HIGHEST amount of PEA in it. Gumout has a lot, too... And I put one Royal Purple MaxClean in my car recently. I then ran out of gas. >.< Now that wasnt the Royal Purple's fault, it was my fault. THIS TIME, I will put in the Redline SI-1.. because it may work a touch better than the Royal Purple. It also costs $5 less, so, WIN! :) I can't give you MPG differences, but, cars I have used it in, that seem to run smoother EVEN WITH AS LITTLE AS 1oz. PUT IN THE GAS TANK! READ THE DOSING! -YOU ONLY NEED TO PUT IN 1 ounce or so, maybe 3oz to make you feel better but that is maybe a waste, to CLEAN THE FUEL SYSTEM-- - Cars I have used it in, partial list because I honestly do not remember all the cars: 1) 1995 Ford Taurus GL, 3.0L Vulcan, likely was a flood car, 182,000 or so miles. Could me a nice car but this one looked nice and was in good cosmetic condition with cold AC.. but was a piece of **** otherwise. Strike One for Taurus. I also had a 99 Sable that was perfect.. RAN BETTER ON FUEL SYSTEM TREATMENT OF REDLINE, JUST SMOOTHER. YOU CAN NOTICE IT IF YOU ARE TUNED TO HOW THE CARS RUNS BEFORE/AFTER WITH A TRAINED EAR AND A FEEL FOR THE CAR AND SOMETIMES TAKE NOTICE OF HOW THE CAR DRIVES WITH THE RADIO OFF AND HOW IT FEELS AND SHIFTS, PERHAPS. JUST SMOOTHER. SAME WAY WHEN YOU CHANGE OIL OR TIRES. YOU CAN TELL. *Car is gone. 2) 2000 Volvo V70 XC AWD, ~131,000, 2.4L Turbo I5 - SAME. RAN REAL NICE ON THE REDLINE IN THE TANK. *Car is gone. And no, it wasn't the fuel injectors. Made me love and appreciate Volvos and all other finer cars, this car. Or most of. Some finer cars suck lol. Something about driver error... 3) 1993 Chevrolet (get ready for it) "S10 Blazer Tahoe LT." Unknown mileage; engines switched due to issues (?) . RUNS LIKE A DREAM ON REDLINE. RUNS PRETTY GOOD ON GUMOUT TOO BUT REDLINE HAS THE EDGE. *Car is sitting, waiting for work. Going full build with it. 4) 1999 Volvo V70 XC AWD, 168,850 miles, - SAME AS THE YEAR 2000 VERSION. *The Redline is going into this car. 3oz initial treatment, though I only need to put in 1oz.. maybe I will. 5) 2003 GMC Envoy XL. 167,500 miles; 4.2I Vortec 4200. This car is abused by its mechanic, with overpriced brand new tires and 10W-40 motor oil as well as Lucas oil (straight 80 weight....... !!!!!!) when it says 5W-30 on the cap. Think about that. 5W-30 RIGHT ON THE CA.. No, er are going two or three times as thick, and calling it "better." WHAT??????????? Aint 1960 or 1970 anymore... Anyways... RUNS NICE AND SMOOTH ON THE REDLINE. NO OTHER CLEANERS USED. So, there you have it. This is why I will ONLY buy: 1) Gumout at WALMART; It costs less, and is readily available; 2) Royal Purple MaxCLEAN; This is the hardest to justify, as it costs $5 more than SI-1, has perhaps slightly not as good results, and I ran out of gas when I put it in. So I couldnt evaluate it properly.. If it runs out of gas after I put it in a half tank I am going to be a complaining consumer to the BBB but lol that wont happen... I will try that one again too, in time, with money... 3) So far, the best of the three: This Redline SI-1. ^^ This was aimed at some of the posters that leave STUPID reviews! Like "My car ran out of gas. 1 star." These are the "bad review trolls" and they need to be shot and executed by the police in the street in a public forum, like Rome and stuff. These are bad people, these trolls. They need love. And they need Jesus. But notice I am not giving a product a one-star review because I ran out of gas. Take heed, lemmings. :) And, one more thing before I hit "Submit" or "Preview my review:" PEA cleans like dishes in a dishwasher. It breaks down any dirt and stuff in fuel system, and carries it away to combustion. IT DOES NOT CLOG FUEL FILTERS. Now, sure, if your fuel filter is clogged.. Will it carry stuff from it to injectors? NO! Why? because it DISSOLVES IT. Then it goes with fuel flow. So, if using in a dirty system: USE A LOT!! USE the 3 ounces or so! GIVE IT ENOUGH TO DISSOLVE THE DEBRIS AND DIRT YOU EXPECT ARE THERE! Or, better yet, change the fuel filter. It is a little tricky and you must be careful, but on a lot of cars its easy, if its not then again: CLEANER!! :) This product will clean injectors, improve spray patterns, maybe increase VOLUME of fuel to the engine, and clean up "Ethanol poop," gas sucks nowadays, and you are a fool if you are saying that gas doesnt leave the ethanol gummy stuff in its effort to be cheapened for maximum profit, winter-blend gas (the worst,) etc. Ethanol eats rubber and isnt good for fuel systems, so why is it in gas????........... Anyways.. Cleaners DO have a purpose.. Sure, YOUR CAR WILL RUN ON JUST GASOLINE but me myself, I believe in these products that address specific things that were overlooked in the inherent design of "just normal gas delivery." Did you like or dislike my review? I tried to make minimal, or no, typos. Firefox helped by having everything underlined in red that it didnt recognize, and I scanned it twice.. Let me know! :)

Review I’m really happy with this fuel system cleaner. It’s easy to use and gives me peace of mind knowing it helps clean the fuel system and prevent corrosion. My car seems to run smoothly after using it, and I like that it helps with overall fuel system maintenance. Great product and definitely something I would use again!

Short version: Among all fuel system cleaners I'm aware of, Redline SI-1 contains the highest quantity per dollar (based on manufacturer MSDS) of the critical fuel-system-cleaning compounds known as polyether amines (PEA). Primarily for this reason I believe SI-1 to be the best available and most cost-effective fuel system cleaner product at retail pricing. At the current price per bottle when bought by the case right here on Amazon ($5.30) it is a bargain (12/15/09 edit: the price here has almost doubled since I wrote this and it is now, unfortunately, far from a bargain). In my case it has not been necessary to use Redline's recommended quantity of approximately 3 oz per fill-up. The effects of 1 oz per fill-up are indistinguishable in terms of tested results (see my basis for this statement below). This results in an approximate cost of $0.35/tank or less than a tenth of a penny per mile. A full case at this usage rate is enough to treat 180 full tanks of fuel or to last approximately 80,000 miles. (Figures based 15gal/tank, 25-35mpg). Long version: As far as I know, every effective fuel system cleaner on the market uses a class of compounds known as polyether amines (PEA), in varying proportions, to effectively clean deposits from fuel system components, and particularly from fuel injectors, which can quickly impact engine efficiency and performance when not operating correctly. My understanding is that these compounds were first developed by Chevron and sold under the Techron name, and have since been made available to other blenders of fuel treatment products. Until recently BG 44K, Chevron Techron Concentrate, Gumout Regane Fuel System Cleaner, Amsoil P.I. Performance Improver Concentrate, and Redline SI-1 (among others) listed polyether amines on their Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in proportions varying from approximately 25% to 50%. Most of these products no longer list PEA on their MSDS, having changed their terminology to disguise the precise nature of their products' constituent components. Whether PEA is still contained in those products is a matter of uncertainty. As of this writing Redline's SI-1 MSDS still specifies that the product contains 30-50% PEA. Consequently it is one of the few remaining fuel system cleaner products that undoubtedly does contain PEA in significant quantity. I have been able to test the efficacy of fuel system cleaners in one of my own vehicles using a method I stumbled on after having its injectors professionally cleaned while out of the vehicle. The car in question uses a Bosch engine management system that reports fuel injector data to an on-board computer, which then uses that data to calculate and report instantaneous and average mpg to the driver. I noted after the professional cleaning that the accuracy of the reported mpg, when used to measure average mpg over each full tank of fuel, improved suddenly from a prior error of around -3% - -5% (that is, the reported mpg was ~3-5% below the actual mpg, or typically just over 1mpg low) to an error as close to zero as I could measure (that is, usually between -1% and 1%, fluctuating above and below a perfect "match"). This can be explained on the basis that the engine management system will compensate for a dirty injector by holding the injectors open slightly longer during each combustion cycle, in order to admit the proper amount of fuel. The on-board computer interprets that as a slightly higher rate of fuel consumption, reporting a lower-than-actual mpg figure. After several thousand miles - not long - the perfect mpg accuracy I'd noticed began to deteriorate, likely indicating that the cleaned injectors were beginning to suffer from some sort of renewed impedance to fuel flow. Out of a desire to retain near-perfect injector performance, and also out of curiosity, I started experimenting with various commercially-available fuel system cleaners and keeping records of the results at each fill-up. Leaving out the long details, I'll simply say here that the results were surprisingly clear and unambiguous. Each time I went several tanks without using a fuel system cleaner (usually as a result of simply forgetting to use it or not taking the trouble), the on-board computer (OBC) accuracy would deteriorate. This would fluctuate from tank to tank, of course, as a result of inevitable measurement errors, but the trend was very clear even over a small number of fill-ups. Returning to the use of a fuel system cleaner (Chevron Techron Concentrate, Gumout Regane or SI-1, all of which at the time did contain PEA), the accuracy would improve again very quickly - within 2-3 fill-ups. I began using the SI-1 exclusively seven months ago based on its apparent cost-effectiveness and since then I have reduced the quantity I use in each tank to the current 1oz per ~15gal fill-up. The results remain unambiguous. If I use this small amount of SI-1 consistently, the accuracy of the on-board computer is excellent, with an average error of below 1%, or a fraction the error rate seen when not using such a product. Based on the above I feel I can confidently conclude that SI-1 works very well, even at reduced treatment rates, at keeping fuel injectors clean. Fuel system types and injectors will vary, and other parts of the fuel system - for example intake valves and combustion chambers - might benefit from higher treatment rates (or, conceivably, might not benefit at all). Actual engine efficiency will not vary nearly as much as injector cleanliness, since the engine feedback system normally corrects for imperfect injector flow rates. However, as the flow is more greatly impeded, or impeded differentially among the individual injectors, mpg will be affected to some degree. I feel it is well worth the tiny cost to consistently use a small quantity of SI-1. Other benefits, such as to combustion efficiency as a result of combustion chamber cleanliness, to volumetric efficiency as a result of intake valve cleanliness, and to fuel system lubrication, probably exist as well although I can not evaluate them and have not attempted to do so. Other fuel system cleaners may work as effectively, or nearly as effectively, but I do not believe them to be as good in terms of value per dollar spent. In my experimentation I did try some less expensive fuel system cleaners, those not containing PEA. They appeared to have no effect. I can not categorically state that only PEA-containing fuel system cleaners work, of course, but my observations did match the conventional wisdom on this point. I also experimented with using top-tier fuels only, without any additional fuel system cleaners. The results were the same as when using non-detergent (Costco and others) fuels. I don't doubt that top tier fuels contain small amounts of cleaners and will keep a fuel system functionally and acceptably clean, but the quantities involved are reputed to be tiny and my observations seem to indicate that even a small amount of additional additive is far more effective.

Best fuel system cleaner I’ve ever used. I have a relatively low mileage 95 ZR-1 (25k miles). After adding Red Line &15 gallons of premium fuel, I went on a 75 mile drive. The engine idled & ran perfectly. Acceleration was strong & smooth as both sets of fuel injectors were flowing great!

I've put it into a few machines and hadn't noticed much of a difference one way or another until I put it into one of my push mowers which hasn't ever given us fits. After about a minute of operation it died. Ran on starting fluid so focused on the carburetor. Carb was getting fuel so took it off and gave it a good cleaning. Ran fine after that. I can only assume this dislodged something big enough to plug up but I wish it would have done it over a longer amount of time to not plug the carb.

I’ve been very happy with this fuel system cleaner so far. I added it to a full tank and the engine has been running smoothly. The idle feels consistent, throttle response seems good, and the vehicle has performed exactly as I was hoping. The bottle is easy to use, and it’s reassuring knowing this cleaner is well regarded for helping keep injectors and the fuel system clean. Based on my experience so far, I’d definitely purchase it again and recommend it to anyone looking for a quality fuel system cleaner for routine maintenance.

Red line fuel treatment works wonderfully. This product if used periodically as a maintenance treatment will keep the fuel system clean and increase mileage. I’ve used Red line fuel treatment products for over 25 yrs and I’ve been highly satisfied with the product.

I've been using Red Line SI-1 for years and keep coming back to it because it works. The bottles are the perfect size for treating a full tank, the product stays fresh on the shelf, and it's compatible with every gas vehicle I've used it in. While the taste isn't exactly something I'd recommend trying (obviously!), the color makes it easy to see when pouring. Most importantly, it helps keep injectors and the fuel system clean, and I've noticed smoother operation after use. A durable, trustworthy product that's become part of my regular maintenance routine.

I buy this regularly and I like buying from Amazon because of next day delivery. I think this product works my engine runs very smooth and responsive and feels like restoring power

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Este sí tiene los elementos para que realmente ayuden al motor y otros elementos como los inyectores, tiene los materiales que linouan y cuidado con otros que solamente dañan empaques.

Fácil de utilizar. El motor responde normal después de llenar el tanque. Espero que se vean sus resultados en el futuro.

Great product, sorted my mini rough idlying. I used a full bottle with half a tank of fuel to get a better concentration.