Dex-cool with Red Line Water Wetter
07-23-2010, 07:26 PM
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Dex-cool with Red Line Water Wetter any one put Red Line Water Wetter mix with dex-cool ? nothing wrong with my coolant, im just about to take it for 2000+ miles trip, im thinking this stuff would help cool down a bit .
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07-23-2010, 08:19 PM
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Water wetter from anybody is a complete waste of time and money. Keep your cooling system properly maintained, and you'll never ever get hot.
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07-23-2010, 08:46 PM
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I know people who don't run gms that swear by dexcool and I know peeps that run gms and would rather take it up the *** than run dexcool, best thing I can tell you is keep your car maintained regularly and run it like you stole it. I did the power tour and almost 1k miles in 92+ temps @ 75-80 mph with the a/c on full time and my vert ran fine w/dexcool, YMMV.
07-23-2010, 09:00 PM
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I hear ya, but you've got a completely different situation from a street car, or even a street strip car. Whole different dynamic in play with a car that spends most of it's life at full throttle, and has a minimal cooling system in deference to the weight god.
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07-23-2010, 11:48 PM
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It did absolutely nothing for my temps, not a single degree. It probably does help hot spots from forming in the heads, but for a daily driver type street car....its 100% useless and unecessary.
A clean and properly flowing coolant system with proper airflow through the condensor/radiator is all that you can do to run cool. I use 90% water and a half jug of Dexcool down here in Florida, I run so cool all the time, its nuts.
LT1 radiator in an LS1 absolutely did drop my operating temps 10-15 degrees across the board though. Great mod.
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07-24-2010, 12:15 AM
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Listen to "fleet".....its a waste of money. I tried it in my 427ci when I first got the engine put in (2002) because I got caught up in the hype of it. And it probably works well for race engines that get extrene duty.
It did absolutely nothing for my temps, not a single degree. It probably does help hot spots from forming in the heads, but for a daily driver type street car....its 100% useless and unecessary.
A clean and properly flowing coolant system with proper airflow through the condensor/radiator is all that you can do to run cool. I use 90% water and a half jug of Dexcool down here in Florida, I run so cool all the time, its nuts.
LT1 radiator in an LS1 absolutely did drop my operating temps 10-15 degrees across the board though. Great mod.
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It did absolutely nothing for my temps, not a single degree. It probably does help hot spots from forming in the heads, but for a daily driver type street car....its 100% useless and unecessary.
A clean and properly flowing coolant system with proper airflow through the condensor/radiator is all that you can do to run cool. I use 90% water and a half jug of Dexcool down here in Florida, I run so cool all the time, its nuts.
LT1 radiator in an LS1 absolutely did drop my operating temps 10-15 degrees across the board though. Great mod.
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