P5er

my P5 has 30K miles on now, I want to change my coolant to Red line's "water-wetter".
What do you think about it.
I live in Florida a lot of heat and heavy traffic, A/C on and I have a automatic all of which puts a lot of pressure (Heat) on the engine.

Opinions welcommed.

Bruce95fmla

I used it a long time ago ,, it's nice ..
bruce

arapau

Redline water wetter is an additive for the coolant system. I wouldn't use it without anti-freeze as it has no anti-corrosion abilities. I think the bottle has that information on it. I've only used it in water-cooled aircraft engines, but only as an additive to the existing coolant mixture. I couldn't really tell if it helped or not.

Installshield

Yeah I think it is a chemical to increasethe specific heat capacity of the water/coolant mixture...meaning it cools better kind of, or rather takes more energy to increase the water/coolant temp...

you most likely won't notice anything unless your engine is heavily modified and the stock cooling system is inadequate...

b_real45

I should see no problem with it. My friend's turbo'd GS-R had cooling issues because the FMIC was blocking the radiator. RedLine Water Wetter did the job. Plus, he never uses a 50/50 mix of Coolant/Water because we're in FL.. not much need for a lot of coolant so we use around 30/70 coolant/water.

P5er

thanks a lot,
I will mix 70/30 water(w water wetter)/coolant

Maxx Mazda

I heard somewhere that just water (providing your temp never goes below freezing) is the best coolant. Just plain, clean, distilled water. Will it hurt the rad?

In Calgary, we have to use antifreeze. It's april and we have a foot of fresh snow! Last week it was 20* and sunny!

b_real45

Yes ideally water is the best.. but you need to have a full aluminum radiator and engine so it doesn't corrode.

TheMAN

it *does* have anti-corrosion packages, just not anti-freeze... it has some sort of lubricating properties that allow fluid in the system to flow with less restriction

mrjiggy

Anti-Freeze is also called Coolant because...IT COOLS!!...Coolant will increase the boiling point of your radiator mixture...soo my guess is the "coolant > water" the higher the mixture the lower the boiling point=lower temperature...also consider installing a lower temperature thermostat for cooling problems

mrjiggy

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b_real45

Here's a good read.

http://www.jcna.com/library/tech/tech0011.html

TrexPro5

SO True... as an example, one of my friends (at the time ran a TT setup on his supra), was pushing over 450hp to the wheels. One of the "mods" that was so affective with his car was the fact he, not only, flushed his coolant lines about 25-30 times, but was running 80% Dis. Water and the rest Coolant w/ Redline Water Wetter. (I should mention that his Supra had around 85k miles on it at the time he did this so a coolant flush was almost nec.)