I'm considering switching to distilled water and Water Wetter. It seems like almost everyone has no issue, but a few do. They say the problem shows up as little ***** of "goo" or a while powdery substance in the water jacket. So, what have you found?

Oh, if you have problems, but have anti-freeze as part of the mix, please note that.

 

pair it up with some water pump lube / anti corrosion additive and its great

 

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Why lube? The water pump on hondas are enclosed, sealed from water bearings..

 

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Why lube? The water pump on hondas are enclosed, sealed from water bearings..</TD></TR></TABLE>
The lube keeps the water pump shaft seal from getting hard extending the life of the pump.

 

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Doesent the water wetter or similar product allready have such an additive with it?

Edo

 

USE IT WITH WATER ONLY, REMOVE ALL COOLANT. FOR BEST RESULTS.

 

Yeah, my research elsewhere makes me suspect the people who end up with deposits in the cooling systems added waterwetter to previously existing anti-freeze. OTOH RedLine documentation doesn't say there's anything outright wrong with doing that, but talking to them they said:

"A precipitate can form in conjunction with the corrosion package in some antifreezes, this isn't a goo and isn't detrimental. It typically is seen in the expansion tank as small dark blobs, at operating temperature in the cooling system will go back into suspension. When seen it is generally in the lower temperature expansion tank.

If it is a whitish/clear goo that generally is from the presence of silicates. A goo is generally from silicates. A silicate containing antifreeze might have been introduced or residual in the system. If the PH drops low enough a silicate goo could form. This could occur over time or the slight drop in PH from the WaterWetter might be enough to allow formation."

So the stuff still looks promising... just don't mix it with antifreeze.

 

From my research the RP version does not leave any sort of residue. Its also being used in 3 of our cars none of which have any residue (being used with antifreeze).

 

What's the "RP" version?

 

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Royal Purple Ice
http://www.royalpurple.com/prodsa/prpice.html

 

RedLine say adding WaterWetter to a water/antifreeze mix gives NO cooling improvement . Not sure why people would add the stuff if they're going to keep the antifreeze.

 

2 bottles + distilled water in the dorifto machine. it helps.

i have a horrible tendancy to run hot because of the front mount intercooler, it extends the time i can HPDE/drift a bit before i have to come off in the hotter months.

before water wetter about 10 hard minutes (were talking hard) id start to run warm. with water wetter its about 13-15.

 

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yeah they do...its on the bottle, and on the website
http://www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp
Or it can be added to new or used antifreeze to improve the heat transfer of ethylene and propylene glycol systems

 

Nuts, you're correct, that didn't come out right. What I meant to say was I was surprised by this, from their technical page: http://www.redlineoil.com/whitePaper/17.pdf

"50/50 water + coolant with waterwetter = 220deg
water = 220deg."

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kb58 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nuts, you're correct, that didn't come out right. What I meant to say was I was surprised by this, from their technical page: http://www.redlineoil.com/whitePaper/17.pdf

"50/50 water + coolant with waterwetter = 220deg
water = 220deg."
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Funny, here is what I read:
50% Glycol/ 50% Water 228°F
50/50 with WaterWetter® 220°F
Water 220°F
Water with WaterWetter® 202°F

Water with Water wetter is 202, that is pretty good...

 

Right, same as your two lines... I got it from the same place.