anyone ever used this stuff. my car seems to run pretty warm(or my temp guage is off) and with the summer heat here it ain't getting better. thought i would try this stuff. i think redline is a pretty good brand right?

http://www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp

 

From what I ahve heard it works quite well.

 

I run water wetter in my car with just regular water. Never had a problem with the car over heating.

 

I've had it in my radiator twice. Last year I flushed the stock radiator and put some water wetter in, however, not even a week later at an autoX event I cracked the RH side tank and had to replace the radiator. I have been told that the water wetter can increase the probability of the radiator cracking but I have never seen proof or any reason to beleive that other than the coincidence that my radiator cracked a week after putting it in. But you have to consider the circumsances, racing. I don't remember if the car ran any cooler with the water wetter or not, but I have a stock temp. gauge so I couldn't tell you for certain. I put in a 3 row alum. radiator and again added water wetter and everything has been great. But I can't tell you if it's due to the water wetter or the big *** overkill radiator. My temp gauge never gets to the halfway mark unless its 90*+ and sitting in traffic.

 

That's strange. I never heard of water wetter causing the radiator to crack. I still have the stock radiator and have run my car on a couple of road course and currently no issues. Do you run use the water wetter with coolant or just straight water and water wetter?

 

I don't know if it caused my radiator to crack since I have no proof that the water wetter was the direct reason. I've just hard that it could cause it to crack (make it more prone to cracking) and then only one week after flushing my radiator and adding water wetter for the first time mine cracked. So no way to determine if the water wetter played any part. And like it said, I've been running water wetter in my current radiator for a year and completed about 12 autocross events and two days of open track with zero problems. At the time I had a 70% water and 30% coolant. Right now it's at 50% coolant/water.

 

I've been running a 50/50 coolant/water mix, with a bottle of water wetter, for about 2 yrs. now. I have an '02 GT, stock cooling. It ran fine in central Texas during 110* days on the highway, traffic, and racing. It's also been fine since I moved to Rhode Island and survived the winter here just fine. Temp. never runs above halfway ever.

 

Hey Rob, where ya been old man? Its nice to know youre still kickin.

I would replace the thermostat as a starting point.

 

Yep, i'm still kickin. Just been spending all my free time hangin out with my 1 and a half year old son otherwise just been laying low

 

i've flushed the system, burped it, replaced thermostat with a 180^, replaced the temp. switch, temp. sending unit, and pulled a fan out of the yard and switched them out, still runs a bit warm 3/4 of the way to just over that when im not going down the highway. fan doesn't seem to kick on till it's about to boil. i got some in yesterday but i haven't driven it much so i will see.

 

Well isn't it the 96 cars that were notorious for overheating? or is that only mod motor cars.

 

Did you clean the outside of the radiator?

Water Wetter is nothing more then wetting agents which change the surface tension of the water and it contains corrosion inhibitors. As worst, it does nothing. At best, it will make the car run cooler. I have a temp guage and have used the stuff....appears make no difference. If there is one, it is likely minor.

The product is a great compliment when running with just water alone.

It won't hurt anything.

 

If you want to see what water wetter actually does, take several drops and mix it with water in a shot glass. Place regular tap water in another shot glass. Use an eye dropper to transfer a drop of each onto the surface of a penny (requires 2 penny's, 1 for each). The plain water will make the classic drop-o-water on top of the penny. The water-wetter polluted water will probably run right off and you will probably want a paper towel handy.

High surface tension makes water a less efficient heat transfer medium than it could be. So dropping the surface tension makes it easier for it to fill in all the little micro-pores and really move some heat. It's good stuff.

 

"Did you clean the outside of the radiator?"

well, no that is one of the things i considered just never took the time to do it. i thought about getting some a/c coil cleaner that you would use to clean the outside central air unit and lay it out to soak and hose it off repeating a couple of times. then i also thought about laying it out and putting a mixture of water and CLR inside it to maybe get some build up out of there. not sure if either one of these is safe enough to try though.