Well it's time for me to change my Anti-Freeze/Coolant now that summer is just around the corner and the drag strip is open. Do you guys suggest anything besides OEM Anti-Freeze/Coolant?

Thanks for the help.

 

http://www.evanscooling.com/index2.html or OEM only

 

Anyone else?

 

I've always used whatever is on sale . If you aren't boosting and creating alot of heat it doesn't really matter.

 

anything, prestone is fine.

 

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I would love to see inside your water jacket....

I strictly use Honda Type 2 in all my cars. Except race cars (real race cars, not drag cars ) which are required to run water only.

 

I use prestone.. even when boosting boosted 2 years

 

yes sir prestone here,the already 50/50 mixed version...

 

i'm using prestone, boosting 10psi with a/c.

 

prestone here used it in 130 degrees and -10 degrees tempertures. no problems at all.

 

Um, the type of coolant you use really has no affect on how well it cools. For best cooling, you actually want NO coolant and run straight water (with a little bit of redline water weter thrown in) Coolant mainly prevents freezing/boiling and prevents corrosion of all of the items the coolant touches. Adding coolant to the system actually reduces its heat transfer properties. Better coolants will prevent damage by resisting the formation of acid in the cooling system. (do you know what your coolant pH is?) I recommend coolant flushes at a pH of 8.0 and lower. Less expensive coolants are not far from that brand new. Honda Type 2 will take YEARS to get there, although, I flush mine every year. (kind of annoying because I have 7 hondas/acuras) Prestone isn't bad, but there is better out there.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MightyMouseTech &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">... For best cooling, you actually want NO coolant and run straight water...</TD></TR></TABLE>Just to be a ***** about terminology, the plain water IS the coolant. Anti-freeze is what you mean. Plain water makes a better coolant than anti-freeze. But it's no good if it freezes or boils...

The business about pH depends on what corrosion package you're talking about. The American style has more silicates and moderate amount of phosphates. Asian style is high on phosphates and no silicates. European style has no phosphates and no silicates. DexCool uses carboxylic acids instead and is phosphate and silicate free. Hybrid style has carboxylic acids and low levels of silicates but no phosphates. I bet their pH doesn't ALL behave the same way. Especially DexCool.

 

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I would love to see inside your water jacket....
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The inside of the water jackets are fine. As long as you change it every 40k or so there shouldn't be any problems. I personally change it probably every 15k-20k to keep **** from building up in there, but the brand isn't going to do anything. When I bought my car at 175k the previous owner proudly stated that they "change the oil regularly every 25,000 miles" , lol (I was plannin on rebuilding the engine anyway). I can only imagine how often the coolant was changed, and it was fine when I opened the engine up. Coolant isn't exactly brain surgery.

 

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I didn't think that there are any name brand coolants that still contain any silicates, no matter what continent.

 

If you really want better cooling, try WaterWetter by Redline. It works. I think it increases specific heat. But anyways, it just takes more heat away from the heat source, namely the engine. A friend of mine has a 7.4 liter GMC truck, when he climbs hills before water wetter he would pass his center line on the water temp meter, and after it stays in the middle. Same principle should apply when racing our little 1.8L 4 bangers.

 

It reduces the surface tension of the coolant. Basically it is water softener.

 

the Honda brand. I got a coupon for it for like $7.99

 

prestone

 

oem honda fliuds

 

Ok Team Integra says to use half water half OEM anti freeze. Should I do this using Prestone as well?


Modified by 5spdIntegra at 5:46 PM 4/20/2004

 

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Depends on which OEM. Honda Type 1 you have to mix (50/50 recommended on the bottle, I mix it 60/40 water/coolant personally) The new Type 2 comes premixed, you can just dump it in. I also like the smell of Type 2, smells like play-doh Although, you can buy Type 2 in pails that is not premixed if you REALLY want to mix it yourself.

 

i use the honda pre-mixed coolent....

 

I use the oem Type-II

 

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Whats the price on that?

 

Idk I think around $8 a gallon or something. Its about 6 after my discount so around 8-9.