water wetter.......who has it? does it help?

[CONEH8R]

I run pure water with water wetter. No coolant. Temps are lower.

 

[Black Majik MSP]

I run pure water with water wetter. No coolant. Temps are lower.

Good to know, but how do you get away with that in WI? I was just there several weeks ago & I can tell it gets Fing cold.

 

[Puckpimp71]

Anyone here try Engine Ice or Liquid Performance's coolant? I think it's mainly for the bike crowd, but supposedly it'll run as much as 50F cooler.... Sounds a bit optimistic?

 

[YellowMP5]

what is the water wetter made out of? what is its chemical make up?

 

[Black Majik MSP]

what is the water wetter made out of? what is its chemical make up?

I bought some, so you can take a look at the next meet. If you check their website, it might tell you too.

 

[speedhawaii]

just watter isnt cool

 

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

just to reinforce, water wetter and water is better than water wetter and anti-freeze

 

[Puckpimp71]

Not sure what water wetter is made of, but it helps cool your car by keeping the water from "beading" up and creating hot spots... I think it's supposed to reduce surface tension to help it flow better as well.

 

[03MSPRO]

mada no diffeence in my car. It only drops temperature UP to 20 deg. when used with water ONLY. Water is a better coolant than antifreeze, but we need antifreeze to keep water from freezing in the winter of course.

 

[Aaron]

on a side note myself and a couple of other people in the forced induction section on a topic about water wetter have experienced brown crap in the coolant resevoir. I emailed redline and they responded that water wetter and some antifreeze brands could make this brown stuff visible in the coolant resevoir.

 

[CONEH8R]

I run coolant in the fall/winter. Yeah, that woudn't be a good thing (freezing the radiator).

Water wetter raises the boiling temp of water. It cools better becomes water has the best heat transfer, it's 1:1. The water wetter raises the boiling temp and keeps the minerals in the water from correding the metal in the cooling system. Pure water would be ok in a car, but you'd have to change it pretty often to keep the mineral deposits down. I usually change coolant 3 or so times a year.

 

[03MSPRO]

just use destilled water. it has no minerals.

I run coolant in the fall/winter. Yeah, that woudn't be a good thing (freezing the radiator).

Water wetter raises the boiling temp of water. It cools better becomes water has the best heat transfer, it's 1:1. The water wetter raises the boiling temp and keeps the minerals in the water from correding the metal in the cooling system. Pure water would be ok in a car, but you'd have to change it pretty often to keep the mineral deposits down. I usually change coolant 3 or so times a year.

 

[N1XRR]

I run coolant in the fall/winter. Yeah, that woudn't be a good thing (freezing the radiator).

Water wetter raises the boiling temp of water. It cools better becomes water has the best heat transfer, it's 1:1. The water wetter raises the boiling temp and keeps the minerals in the water from correding the metal in the cooling system. Pure water would be ok in a car, but you'd have to change it pretty often to keep the mineral deposits down. I usually change coolant 3 or so times a year.

(Shakes head)

Running pure water is not just bad because of the mineral deposites, its REALLY bad because of electrolosis inside the engine. It literaly eats the aluminum away.

Water is a coolant too. Don't say "I run coolant in the winter" when you really mean "I run antifreeze in the winter".

 

[YellowMP5]

but can we buy distilled water in the supermarket, its cheap, and run that with water wetter as the coolant? we floridians need all the cooling power we can get. there is no risk of freezing the engine here. distilled water supposedly doesn't have the minerals and additives in it.

there is also drinking and purified water. does anybody know the difference?

 

[celdridge]

just wanna see who here uses watter wetter.
did u guys see any gains.....
i've talked to a mazda engeneer yesterday about our bad ECU, he told me that ONE of the reasons it acts the way it does is because of the coolant temps.

i asked if we would benefit from watter wetter, he said yes.

well i wanna see if any of u have benefited, or if it was a wasted of time and money.

thanks
-Victor

I use it ... it works really well ... there is a noticable difference in under the hood temps and the car does not heat up as fast.

 

[CONEH8R]

(Shakes head)

Water is a coolant too. Don't say "I run coolant in the winter" when you really mean "I run antifreeze in the winter".

coolant=anitfreeze, general assumption.. didn't know i had to clarify every comment i made... you are right water is a coolant, but when 99% of people say "coolant" they are referring to antifeeze...

your comment is pointless, as is my reply....

 

[xelderx]

I'll be putting this in the Pro5 as soon as I get the motor back together. This stuff works better than Water Wetter in my motorcycles and is legal in AMA motorcyle racing so I'm pretty sure it passes for Auto events as well. It's premixed and comes in orange color so leaks are easy to spot.

 

[Puckpimp71]

Bought some stuff called Engine Ice... maaaad expensive ($15/2 quarts) , but it's what the Liquid Performance is based off of... Another member reported a 15 degree F drop in the upper hose with it.

 

[wicked]

I just went with a ten degree cooler thermostat and water wetter.good amout in temp drop.next I'll be adding a higher rate cap.

 

[xelderx]

Bought some stuff called Engine Ice... maaaad expensive ($15/2 quarts) , but it's what the Liquid Performance is based off of... Another member reported a 15 degree F drop in the upper hose with it.

Yep... Engine Ice came out before LP's coolant, but I think the Engine Ice wasn't track approved...in most of our applications that really doesn't matter though.