Has anyone used this product in their cooling system ??
Have you noticed any significant change in your water temps ??

Red Line Water Wetter Coolant Additive

 

I've seen a few threads where people stated it didn't do anything ... but I wonder if they just put it in the overflow tank, or actually put it into one of the hoses to make sure it actually entered the coolant system.

 

Snake oil? I was always told water is the best fluid for heat exchange just reduce your coolant to water ratio to acheive better heat transfer. 50/50 is normally overkill unless you live in cold climate.

 

depends on the water....it could lime up your system and cool nothing...lol

 

I've used it in mine. Though I just change dout the coolant a couple weeks ago and haven't added any back in.

From everything I've heard it does help a bit because it is supposed to reduces the viscosity of the water and help aire pass through it better and pull more heat...

So I've heard.

But I haven't heard anything negative about it ever, so for $5 or whatevver it is...Not a bad deal.

 

I drained 2 gallons of the coolant and replaced it with 2 bottles of Water Wetter and 2 gallons of distilled water.

 

A Friend of mine in AZ used years ago in his heavily modified 16v jetta. He noticed a bit of a drop in coolant temp, but nothing i would deem significant.

-Dave

 

Stewart Components - High Performance Automotive Cooling

"If the softening agents actually aided in cooling the engine, the temperature of the coolant as it exited the engine would have to be higher because it would have absorbed more heat."

Wouldn't this mean the temp gauge should register higher temps when the hotter coolant passes over the sensor?

 

I agree as the heat has to be taken away by a combination of higher temp fluid or a higher rate of flow.

There is one other way which is to increase the specific heat of the liquid.

As I have been talking about the specific heat of water is 1.0 and that to my knowledge that is as high as it goes. Antifreeze dilutes waters effect to about 0.6 or so. That means a 40% REDUCTION IN COOLING !!!!!

I have decided to reduce the antifreeze content in my car below 50% - 50% (-60 F DEGREES RATED ). Iam running just enough antifreeze to go to about 15 TO 20 degrees ABOVE ZERO which gives me better cooling without additives. I have added some water pump lubricant and rust preventative to compensate for the rust protection 50% antifreeze provides.

Basically water straight is best if it does not cause rusting or damage due to freezing. Woody

 

Can you explain that statement please as it always will promote rust and will destroy your engine if it freezes solid.
If I take it as an if it doesn't question its an OK statement but could confuse, as it did this old fart.
PS
The specific gravity of water is 1 at about 39 deg.F
and the specific heat is not 1.

 

 

If I am going to have a test can I pick the category?

 

The one thing missing is that a water wetter is a surfactant. It breaks the surface tension of water and allows better temperature exchange between the liquid and metal surfaces.
So it helps at heat transfer throughout the system.
Sounds great fo the separated IC systems out there.

 

Much better way of saying what I was trying to earlier.

+1 to this