Coolant Change for the season: Water Wetter

[Tugz S2k]

Im going to change my coolant/antifreeze out soon. I am going to use concentrated green coolant from Honda with distilled water. Would it be worth adding some Redline water wetter to the mix?

[spiderxvpbiking]

I swear by Water Wetter.... Really helps in the summer months while tracking the car.

[Tugz S2k]

Do you mix it in with your Coolant (50/50 mix)? Or distilled water only? In what way do you see an improvement?

[gomarlins3]

That's what is used in the Comptech Aftercooloer so I am planning on adding it to the radiator before my track days this year. I will see if it helps. I got to four bars consistantly during the event last year and 5 bars for a couple of minutes on my last run.

[repiv]

A few things to think about ........................
Honda's "concentrated" coolant is Type I, right? Since Type II is a long life coolant that is used straight out of the bottle. Type I would then be considered "short" life, would it not? And need to be changed more frequently?
The proper mix for guarding against freezing would be 50:50 mix with distilled water. However, if you don't leave the car in the deep freeze, this doesn't really matter, except for the anti-corrision/anti-rust and lubrication elements in the coolant. So, this leads me to the next aspect. Does water wetter contain either freeze protection or anti-corrosion agents, etc? If water wetter does contain these elements, then how does mixing it with coolant affect the overall concentration of those elements contained in the coolant? Does it detract from them or enhance them or have no affect?

[desmo4]

From what I know about Water wetter, it reduces the surface tension of the water and it will work fine with coolants. And it can be run with plain water. I would not use distilled or deionized water as it is much more corrosive than tap water. I have used Water Wetter with plain water and with antifreeze with no adverse effects.

Jonathan

[tomauto]

Water wetter lowers coolant temperatures and is safe for aluminum block engines. Most race sanctioning bodies do not allow antifreeze in the cooling system since it is slippery when leaked onto the race track. Water Wetter helps cool like antifreeze but it is not oily or slippery if leaked onto the race track

[darkside]

I used it on my dc2 a few times, and definatly noticed the temp drop.

[Tugz S2k]

did you have an external temperature gauge? what was the reduction? With 50/50 coolant right?

[rioyellows2k]

Honda Coolant is Premixed, so adding anything to it is not needed.

[desmo4]

Water wetter lowers coolant temperatures and is safe for aluminum block engines. Most race sanctioning bodies do not allow antifreeze in the cooling system since it is slippery when leaked onto the race track. Water Wetter helps cool like antifreeze but it is not oily or slippery if leaked onto the race track

As I said it lowers surface tension of the coolant so the engine will run slightly cooler,

Jonathan

[RatedR]

I'm actually running water wetter (2 bottles) right now with distilled water. There's something fishy though, I've had to top off the radiator and the overflow 2 times in 3 weeks. Seems like the water's turning into steam and not holding the boiling point very well. Any ideas or what else it could be? I dont detect any signs of leakage, but I do smell the water and water wetter when it gets hotter....kinda like its seeping through something. Other than that, the temp holds fine, I've ran straight water and WW on my 240SXs before and they were great!

EDIT - Found the problem, Now w/ WaterWetter, everything's running fine!
Plus, when I change my coolant, no worries about leaving a mess, its just water!

[xlaox]

i heard redline water wetter sludges up really bad?