mine is pretty much straight water now.. kinda lightly tinted green.
i just fill 'er up with the garden hose every time i wash the truck.

LOL
brooks

[This message has been edited by clonetek (edited 04-24-2001).]

 

Anything that reduces the surface tension will reduce the boiling point and the heat capacity of the fluid. I.e. less effective heat removal from the intake air.

 

I talked to JL yesterday about this and he said to leave it 50/50 except drain a little off and add some WW I don't remember how much I guess follow the bottle instructions? I never feel my IC fluid heat up much.

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In the summer or racing season, I live a mixture of 70/30 mostly water, and no WATER WETTER. I have tried it, but I always had a leaky intercooler, so I figured after the 3rd intercooler...I was better spending that 8 bucks else where 8 bucks could alomost buy me 3lbs. of Nitrous LOL

Winter I stick with the recommended specs. Hope This Helps

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Clonetek:

I really hope that you were goofing about the "garden hose" thing. Filling the 'cooler circuit with untreated water (read - "water having appreciable mineral content") is a recipe for serious disaster. You're inviting severe mineral (read - "calcium and magnesium") scale buildup throughout the entire intercooler circuit. As this is a circuit that gets hot on occasion, the scaling will be greatly accelerated, as most mineral salts exhibit inverse solubility (read - "less soluble as the liquid heats up"). I realize that the intercooler itself is disposable in the truest sense, but your intercooler rad, hoses, and pump are not. Scale means a higher thermal resistance (read - "lower heat transfer efficiency") and higher wear through the system. Eventually, you might completely plug small passages in the rad or 'cooler itself.

I used to fill my washer fluid res with the garden hose when I lived in the "deep south" (no freeze danger, after all). Our tap water was VERY soft (I'm a brewer, so I had it analyzed). Anyway, my wiper fluid system (which didn't see NEARLY the thermal cycling that your intercooler system does) scaled up so thick within a couple of years that it clogged shut. I tore it down and cleaned it out one day and found the entire "floor" of the res to be covered with calcium scale at least 1/16 inch thick.

Please use distilled water in your 'cooler. And if you were indeed joking, relax. There's inevitably somebody out there reading this that is in the process of trashing his system with tap water as we "speak".

This has been another public service annaouncement brought to you by the Society For Better Living Through Applied Chemistry And Physics (and oil filter waxing), or something like that...

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Another tragedy averted....j/k

[This message has been edited by TampaSVT (edited 04-24-2001).]

 

Huh?

 

Yeah, what Silver-Y2K-SVT says. Always use distilled water in cooling systems, batteries etc. Don't mistake "purified" for "distilled". Purified just means they filtered the cooties out, while distilled means they got out everything, minerals etc.
Distilled water is also the best kind of water to drink. Tap water is nasty.

 

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I use to play with distilled water and it can be some what dangerous.

Distilled water is a powerful cleaning agent, so powerful in fact that if placed in an inproper plastic container then it can easly bleach the PCB's out, once the PCB's are suspended then you realy, realy, realy, don't want to drink that water.

Also distilled water doesn't contain any electrolites.

 

I put a half bottle of Water Wetter in my intercooler resevour today. I was trying to figure out how to drain some of the coolent out, I found a empty Windex bottle, so I stuck the spayer in the resevour and started pumping. After about 200 pumps I had enough out, then it was on the the radiator, 200 more pumps. Well that was my exercise for today LOL

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Oh, goodness me, have I committed an unpardonable sin? Have been adding distilled water to my i/c reservoir since it started going south, but the other day I popped the hood at my electronics dealer and discovered that the reservoir was bone dry after only 50 miles. I know that tap water is a no no, but I figured I'd better add some anyway before I ruined the pump by running it dry, so in went the old garden hose. Topped it off with distilled water when I got home, and soon added the cooling system sealant, which appears to have stopped further leaking. Should I have flushed the system and refilled with distilled water before adding the stop leak? Should I do it now? And is there anything I can flush it with that will get those bad deposits out?

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What color and diameter was the garden hose. you might be alright