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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 04:30 PM
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wetter water

does wetter water work and if so how?
how many degress will it reduce?
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 04:44 PM
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Re: wetter water

Originally posted by johntypes
does wetter water work and if so how?
how many degress will it reduce?
Is it Redline Water Wetter or Wetter Water? Can't remember.

Anyway, I put it my TLS and while the idiot gage is not a precise instrument for measurement, I did notice that the needle reads 1/2 of a line lower. Now how many degrees is that?? No idea.

Redline claims about 10 degrees. With our engines and tranny problem potential, it was worth spending the $7 bucks.

IMO

Ruf
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:37 PM
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It works. I would recommend Scalbert's setup. Mugen t-stat, Mugen fan switch, and Mugen rad cap along with the Redline WaterWetter.
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:49 PM
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Re: wetter water

Originally posted by johntypes
does wetter water work and if so how?
how many degress will it reduce?
1. Yes, it works...

2. See website: http://www.redlineoil.com/redlineoil/wwti.htm; it's explained there.

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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 06:51 PM
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Damn... just add a pure water.... look at this chart... it is just like a bottled watter...

And there is an alternative:



http://www.designengineering.com/radiator_relief.html

And check this... the one who bought the All_motor custom turbo would love this:


http://www.designengineering.com/cry...r_sprayer.html
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 07:24 PM
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Intresting discussion, guys. But, I fear for you. When was the last time you changed your all important blinker fluid?
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 08:49 PM
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Intresting discussion, guys. But, I fear for you. When was the last time you changed your all important blinker fluid?
And don't forget folks that it's nearly spring and time to recycle the air in the tires.
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 09:41 PM
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Originally posted by dfreder370
Intresting discussion, guys. But, I fear for you. When was the last time you changed your all important blinker fluid?
Had a "prop wash" lately?


The kelvin-8 subzero bulbs always get changed with the blinker fluid (see manual). A smart car person knows to check the hysterious dust in the blinker well (without it, the bulbs will blink erratically and burn out prematurely).


Warning: Latest safety info says filling your high performance tires with dirty air can cause fatal crashes. Locate a good speed shop with clean, dry nitrogen for use in your tires. Your tires will thank you (one day).
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 09:50 PM
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Originally posted by Nashua_Night_Hawk
Damn... just add a pure water.... look at this chart... it is just like a bottled watter...


AVOID tap or bottled “drinking” water in your car's radiator (OK, OK, if your in the dessert and need water -- go for it). However, it is best to put in distilled water or pre-mixed antifreeze (has distilled water already added). Tap and bottled water can have tons of crud that are not very "nice" to cooling systems. Bottled water != distilled water.

Plain water -- without any inhibitors (corrosion inhibitor) and lubricants -- is a disaster for long-term engine life!

(NOW I'm SERIOUS!!!)
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 10:33 PM
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is red line water wetter for the engine oil??
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 10:36 PM
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Ah... sorry I meant distilled water.. in fact, the last time I added some distilled water to resovoir tank, I used the coffee maching to distlile some water.
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 10:39 PM
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Originally posted by darrinb
is red line water wetter for the engine oil??
Noooooooo.... it's for the radiator...
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Old Mar 12, 2003 | 12:16 AM
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Originally posted by Nashua_Night_Hawk
Noooooooo.... it's for the radiator...
Wheeew...lucky you caught this one in time...don't want to bust an amir..
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Old Mar 12, 2003 | 06:25 AM
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One very important thing to remember if you decide to go this route.

This stuff is NOT an anti-freeze.

We use it in motorcycle racing because we are not allowed to use a glycol based coolant for safety reasons. (Glycol makes a track slick and is hard to get up in case of a crash.) More than one racer has suffered the results of not draining his radiator overnight this time of year at the track.
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Old Mar 12, 2003 | 09:52 AM
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What is the advantage to using the Mugen t-stat, Mugen fan switch, and Mugen rad cap along with the Redline WaterWetter? Does the t-stat open sooner? fan kick in sooner? and what about the rad cap.
Thanks,
David
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Old Mar 12, 2003 | 11:14 AM
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Originally posted by DHRJDMBA
What is the advantage to using the Mugen t-stat, Mugen fan switch, and Mugen rad cap along with the Redline WaterWetter? Does the t-stat open sooner? fan kick in sooner? and what about the rad cap.
Thanks,
David
It allows the coolant to flow sooner. Scalbert showed something like a 10hp estimated gain from using all that on top of all his mods or something. He will be dynoing it again with just those to see what the true gains are.
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Old Mar 12, 2003 | 04:19 PM
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No shit, guys. I dated a girl a long time back, her brother actually DID change the air in his tires every six months! And the way he did it killed me. He would go to the gas station and let all the air out of his tires and refill them, one by one. Curiously, he never broke a bead once. No jack, no nothin.

Although the above is true, in a more serious note, expensive airplanes DO fill the tires with dry nitrogen.
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