[Z06] Water Wetter
Drifting
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From: Goodyear Az
Re: Water Wetter (Gasser82)
It works great. I drained the radiator, figured out the *minium* amount of Antifreezed needed, used distilled water, and WaterWetter. Dropped average temperature by about 10 degrees.
Le Mans Master
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From: FL
Re: Water Wetter (Gasser82)
Read many articles on this item. Pure BS for your stock Corvette.
There is NO water in your Corvettes radiator, so adding this concoction is worthless. However if you run only water or a "minimum" of H2O, then you'll be ok...........
There is NO water in your Corvettes radiator, so adding this concoction is worthless. However if you run only water or a "minimum" of H2O, then you'll be ok...........
Safety Car
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From: Aurora IL
Re: Water Wetter (Gasser82)
Water wetter is a good product that works to reduce overall temp. in the engine by improving the waters ability to transfer heat. Redline makes one product, Royal Purple has a similar product that works as well.
Le Mans Master
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From: N Carolina 08 Z51 Coupe
Re: Water Wetter (nuke61)
It works great. I drained the radiator, figured out the *minium* amount of Antifreezed needed, used distilled water, and WaterWetter. Dropped average temperature by about 10 degrees.
It's works best in all water systems that run temps greater than thermostat
operation.
mike
Team Owner
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Re: Water Wetter (C5~Missle)
It works great. I drained the radiator, figured out the *minimum* amount of Antifreezed needed, used distilled water, and WaterWetter. Dropped average temperature by about 10 degrees.
It works best with just water. Your thermostat will regulate water temps. So anything gained is still going to be regulated by the stat.
It's works best in all water systems that run temps greater than thermostat
operation.
mike
It works best with just water. Your thermostat will regulate water temps. So anything gained is still going to be regulated by the stat.
It's works best in all water systems that run temps greater than thermostat
operation.
mike
Drifting
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From: Jacksonville Florida
Re: Water Wetter (Gasser82)
I have run a commercial water wetter when I track the car, and as others have said it works best with little or no antifreeze. On the C5 you will do better to get a 178 stat and have the fans come on early. On the other hand the car will run fine right the way it come from the factory, so it all depends on how you plan to use the car.
Les
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Drifting
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From: Goodyear Az
Re: Water Wetter (VNAMVET)
Read many articles on this item. Pure BS for your stock Corvette.
There is NO water in your Corvettes radiator, so adding this concoction is worthless. However if you run only water or a "minimum" of H2O, then you'll be ok...........
There is NO water in your Corvettes radiator, so adding this concoction is worthless. However if you run only water or a "minimum" of H2O, then you'll be ok...........
Le Mans Master
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From: FL
Re: Water Wetter (nuke61)
What in the world are you talking about? No water in the radiator? Hello....................... it's a water and anti-freeze mix.
Drifting
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From: Goodyear Az
Re: Water Wetter (VNAMVET)
There is NO water in the Dexcool which is provided from GM for the factory....
Here's the quote and my source for the coolant in the C5 being (as usual) a 50/50 mix of Anti-freeze and water. Actually, it says 55% Dexcool, but that's close enough for our purposes
Quote from Hib Halverson article:
Coolant put in LS1s at Bowling Green is a mix of 45% tap water and 55% ACDelco, "Dex-Cool," a unique ethylene-glycol antifreeze with a non-slicate, anticorrosive chemical package. [end quote]
http://www.idavette.net/hib/C5diy/c5diy1.htm
... and you do not have to change it for 150,000 miles/5 years.
http://snipurl.com/75v9
C5~Missile, it also involves cars where only Dex-Cool was used. Texaco says the problem is that Dex-Cool does NOT get along well with oxygen. Keep your cooling system completely topped off and they say you should have no problems. When they say topped off, they mean fill to the HOT mark when the car is cold. No air = no problems, per Texaco and GM.
I had a 96 Camaro where we used *only* Dex-Cool and in 4 years we had sludge, then I did a search and found out about the Texaco recommendation to keep it completely topped off.
[Modified by nuke61, 4:07 AM 6/18/2004]
Le Mans Master
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From: N Carolina 08 Z51 Coupe
Re: Water Wetter (nuke61)
Dexcool is good stuff! It just can't be mixed with conventional coolant. Some have switched over from conventional without flushing their systems. This causes a gel to form and blocks passages.
If you continue to use only dexcool in your corvette, you will have no problems. Had it in my 99 for 5 years and still looked new when I changed it out..
mike
If you continue to use only dexcool in your corvette, you will have no problems. Had it in my 99 for 5 years and still looked new when I changed it out..
mike
Le Mans Master
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From: Central Coast CA
Re: Water Wetter (VNAMVET)
There is NO water in the Dexcool which is provided from GM for the factory
Your are incorrect. Dexcool in your car is a 50/50 mix of water and straight Dexcool fluid. Using straight Dexcool is almost as bad as using straight water.
Drifting
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From: San Clemente CA
Re: Water Wetter (Shylor)
No modern automobile engine should run either straight water, or straight anti-freeze. Typically it's an approximate 50/50 mix of both, and you should use distilled water when topping off to prevent mineral deposits forming in the cooling system. Straight water cools the best, but obviously you'll have freezing/corrosion problems with that formula. Straight anti-freeze is not a great transfer medium, and your engine will run warmer than it should.
And no cooling system should have any air pockets in it. Air in the system will create steam pockets that can wreak havoc in a radiator, not to mention the car will run hot. This isn't a problem with any modern cooling system that uses an overflow reservoir. The cooling system will naturally purge air as coolant is pushed in and sucked out of the reservoir. Just keep it at the proper level.
Cheers.
And no cooling system should have any air pockets in it. Air in the system will create steam pockets that can wreak havoc in a radiator, not to mention the car will run hot. This isn't a problem with any modern cooling system that uses an overflow reservoir. The cooling system will naturally purge air as coolant is pushed in and sucked out of the reservoir. Just keep it at the proper level.
Cheers.
Drifting
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From: Goodyear Az
Re: Water Wetter (THEDVS1)
Exactly, that's why I drain the coolant, add the minimum amount of anti-freeze (roughly 25% for Southern California) and distilled water mixture, with 1 or 2 bottles of WaterWetter. That's how you'll drop coolant temperature, assuming that it was running higher than thermostat temperature to begin with.
