What's with those love bugs? I just got back from savannah Georgia and they were all over the place, especially the front of my truck. Somebody told me they're only around for 30 days.
Yes, 4 or 5 weeks, but they are miserable while they are out. I have seen them so thick that people were driving off the road into the ditches within 5 miles of home, due to them totally obscuring the windshield with their guts and crap. Today was the first day we got a decent cold front, and the humidity was WAY down, and I could sit outside with a drink and my book, but every time I took a sip, there was a bug or five in there, and they were crawling all over me, the patio, etc. They are nasty, and they eat the paint off your car if you leave them on for 48 hours after they splat on there. Wikipedia picture of lovebugs in Florida. looks about the same around here...
I have had to use the leaf blower twice a day on front and back patio to keep them cleared off. And they still stick to your legs and back, and come inside with you, so you have to chase them around the house with a vacuum cleaner and suck them up. Hmmmmm....one more thing I hate about living in the south.
I use Redline water wetter in my maverick race car with water and run at 180 all day at the track with aluminum heads and a Griffin aluminum radiator 2 row 1 1/2 inch cores and electric fan, without water wetter temps were 190
those products use surfactents for the reduction in the surface tension of water. This reduces the natural barrier which prevents water from being as conductive as it could be when in contanct with other surfaces that are used to aid cooling.. such as the cylinder heads and radiators aluminum/copper core. They work well and I've been using them since they were released into the mainstream market many years ago. They're especially good for older cooling systems that have lost efficiency and/or ones that are too small for the engines power output. They also increase overheating margins if something goes wrong with the system(broken belt or stuck t-stat) and help with the speed of cooling down from a heat spike.. more than the actual total temp reduction in itself. I use them on everything I own including my liquid cooled race sled. Just needs to be drained and/or replaced with antifreeze if I leave it in an unheated setting, is all. I have known of people using it in their street cars who left it in too late into the winter season and ended up with cracked heads. I change mine seasonally so I don't have issues.
I just changed out the fluids in my Cobra yesterday. It was running hotter than I like. This thing has a 460 in it and it's not that easy to keep it cool. I used distilled water (.99 a gallon) 2 bottles of water wetter, and about 10% antifreeze. Dropped about 15% down to 195-200%. When I started the car up I realized the water was flowing immediately which tells me there is no thermostat in it. I'll be putting a 180% ts in it tonight. I anticipate that will help even further.
Yep, another testimonial here. The stuff works. It helps my Maverick, and in my V8 Bravada years ago, it made the difference between getting home ok on a hot day in heavy traffic and waiting for it to cool down on the side of the road.
I use the Red Line water wetter, and it works well. I also use 50/50 mixture, and it drops about 10-15degrees. Good stuff!
no doubt that it will. even a restrictor would help you there. I'd add that if you run the car in the heat and/or "drive it hard" on the street.. and especially when racing.. run a 160 degree to get a more aggressive tune into it. Never met an internal combustion engine that doesn't like to run "cool and fat"(except for alcohol) when you add more timing and fuel. Just takes a little longer for them to wake up until you can lean on the motor, is all.
water only as you can lose horse power using anitfreeze/coolant as the water pump works harder. but does not apply to me as I have a electric water pump but you would benifit from it as your pump is crank driven yes? Redline corp also states that water wetter works better with water then with antifreeze/coolant.
I've used the redline and royal purple in our customers race cars with just distilled water and street cars with 50/50 anti-freeze/distilled water. The anti-freeze does hamper the cooling effect a little, but it's a necessary evil if there is any chance of freezing. In the warmer regions, you can go down to 25/75 coolant/water if you want. I just use the mixture ratios on the bottle and pre-mix in a separate container.
