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Water wetter is a substance added to water to increase its thermal efficiency. Works best with plain water, its effectiveness is reduced by adding antifreeze. It will reduce coolant temperature by several degrees. Manufactured by RedLine, stocked by quite a few places now, but Demon Tweeks have been supplying it for a long time.
yup, it breaks water tension, allowing the water to reach evey corner of your engine / radiator to transfer heat. think of a bubble of water on ya highly polished bonnet. forms a nice bubble. water wetter breaks tension allowing water to cover a greater area.
it does have lubricants, cleaners etc in it to further improve the efficiency of your system, but thats essentially how it works, and it does work. i've used it for years!
anti-freeze does the opposite. well meaning dealers often chuck the whole bottle in your system to "make sure". this extra anti-freeze does little to protect your engine (particularly if it goes away for the winter!) but does have a major effect on the cooling of your car! get yourself a decent guage £5-10 and adjust your anti-freeze for the required temperature range. then add water wetter. this will seriously reduce the running temp of your car.
my griff 500 dropped from 85-90 degrees fans in / out all the time to 75 - 80 degrees fans cutting on only in traffic, and thats with an A/C radiator in front of the cooling radiator!
note - as steve heath says, dont go mad and over cool as this fools the ecu into running in choke mode which causes other running probs. but i ran mine back from nice with no number plate on, no antifreeze AND water wetter in, at 150mph for much of the journey and it sat a 75 degrees all the way! probably held there by the thermostat - but it ran beautifully!!!:smile:
in fact i had to put the heater on around riems cause i was getting blo*dy cold!! that was a first!!!!
>> Edited by Guillotine on Thursday 18th July 21:20
it does have lubricants, cleaners etc in it to further improve the efficiency of your system, but thats essentially how it works, and it does work. i've used it for years!
anti-freeze does the opposite. well meaning dealers often chuck the whole bottle in your system to "make sure". this extra anti-freeze does little to protect your engine (particularly if it goes away for the winter!) but does have a major effect on the cooling of your car! get yourself a decent guage £5-10 and adjust your anti-freeze for the required temperature range. then add water wetter. this will seriously reduce the running temp of your car.
my griff 500 dropped from 85-90 degrees fans in / out all the time to 75 - 80 degrees fans cutting on only in traffic, and thats with an A/C radiator in front of the cooling radiator!
note - as steve heath says, dont go mad and over cool as this fools the ecu into running in choke mode which causes other running probs. but i ran mine back from nice with no number plate on, no antifreeze AND water wetter in, at 150mph for much of the journey and it sat a 75 degrees all the way! probably held there by the thermostat - but it ran beautifully!!!:smile:
in fact i had to put the heater on around riems cause i was getting blo*dy cold!! that was a first!!!!
>> Edited by Guillotine on Thursday 18th July 21:20
I know that Demon Tweeks also do an electric replacement water pump called the EWP (Australian I think).
Seems that you remove the thermostat and bypass/remove the original water pump impeller & leave it to the electric pump to manage the temperature of the engine. Does this using an electronic controller and varying the water flow against temp.
According to some things I read:
www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2000/08/electricwaterpump/index.shtml
Seems to work well. Originally I was investigating it for my Ultima , but considering the temperatures that my Griff 500 achieves (or the massive variance of), I maybe looking at it for to help there too.
Seems that you remove the thermostat and bypass/remove the original water pump impeller & leave it to the electric pump to manage the temperature of the engine. Does this using an electronic controller and varying the water flow against temp.
According to some things I read:
www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2000/08/electricwaterpump/index.shtml
Seems to work well. Originally I was investigating it for my Ultima , but considering the temperatures that my Griff 500 achieves (or the massive variance of), I maybe looking at it for to help there too.
When I looked at these, they had nothing like the flow capacity required to cool a V8.
Also, did you serpentine V8 TVR owners realize that your engine cooling system has NO BYPASS fitted as standard? Tell that to an experienced engine builder and he will laugh at you, don't be daft nobody would be so stupid. And when your aftermarket V8 supplier realizes how you've installed his engine you can say goodbye to your warranty.
Just a thought!
Also, did you serpentine V8 TVR owners realize that your engine cooling system has NO BYPASS fitted as standard? Tell that to an experienced engine builder and he will laugh at you, don't be daft nobody would be so stupid. And when your aftermarket V8 supplier realizes how you've installed his engine you can say goodbye to your warranty.
Just a thought! quote:
I know that Demon Tweeks also do an electric replacement water pump called the EWP (Australian I think).
Seems that you remove the thermostat and bypass/remove the original water pump impeller & leave it to the electric pump to manage the temperature of the engine. Does this using an electronic controller and varying the water flow against temp.
According to some things I read:
www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2000/08/electricwaterpump/index.shtml
Seems to work well. Originally I was investigating it for my Ultima , but considering the temperatures that my Griff 500 achieves (or the massive variance of), I maybe looking at it for to help there too.
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