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Think this is the type of thing you are after??
Alex
Think this is the type of thing you are after??
Alex
It's apparently meant to provide better heat conduction than water in the cooling system.
However, given most "water cooling" systems are nowdays mostly gylcol which, given it's ethylene dichloride and sodium carbonate base elements means it's about as "good as you are going to get" heat conductor from metal via solution to metal, I'd personally spend your money on just moving to 100% glycol cooling system...
WW is one of those additives that rarely seems to have any basis in simple chemistry.....
J
However, given most "water cooling" systems are nowdays mostly gylcol which, given it's ethylene dichloride and sodium carbonate base elements means it's about as "good as you are going to get" heat conductor from metal via solution to metal, I'd personally spend your money on just moving to 100% glycol cooling system...
WW is one of those additives that rarely seems to have any basis in simple chemistry.....
J
Not really - you are confusing surfactants with hydronic liquids 
That's the "joke" about water wetter and their like - they indeed are the same as rinseaid in that they reduce the surface tension of water - a good surfactant can reduce it from 72 dynes/cm to 50 or lower.
However, ethly alcohol has a surface tension of 22 dynes/cm and hence if you filled your car with neat vodka it would "do a better job".
Unfortunatly surface tension has rather little to do with a fully closed cooling system, as, "ob course" surface tension is measured against air, and what isn't there in a cooling system?????
If you want the best performance surface tension has little to do with it, the co-efficient of heat transfer far outways any "wetting" effect - indeed adding a surfactant to reduce it can expose leaks in a system that previously weren't there due to the fact that it "flows" easier.
J
That's the "joke" about water wetter and their like - they indeed are the same as rinseaid in that they reduce the surface tension of water - a good surfactant can reduce it from 72 dynes/cm to 50 or lower.
However, ethly alcohol has a surface tension of 22 dynes/cm and hence if you filled your car with neat vodka it would "do a better job".
Unfortunatly surface tension has rather little to do with a fully closed cooling system, as, "ob course" surface tension is measured against air, and what isn't there in a cooling system?????
If you want the best performance surface tension has little to do with it, the co-efficient of heat transfer far outways any "wetting" effect - indeed adding a surfactant to reduce it can expose leaks in a system that previously weren't there due to the fact that it "flows" easier.
J
Not after the cooling was upgraded. See my website for details of the changes made to the early M12's - nowdays all Nobles sit at 90C rock solid regardless of temp.
Remember that you have to be careful with small children and animals around the front of the car with the cooling fans that are fitted
J
Remember that you have to be careful with small children and animals around the front of the car with the cooling fans that are fitted
J
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