[DeTomaso] Red Line Water Wetter = Good stuff!

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Mike, 
You are just finding out why Red Line Wetter is so worth using on all cars? I starting using it about 1989 in my Jag xj6 with the mechanical fan removed and a sixteen inch fan in its placed turned on by a electrostat. Ran as cool as the noisy OEM fan except in August long Louisiana traffic lines. I use it in all my cars, even my wifes 1999 e 430 w/nitrous and a small electric fan. Has run cool since fan mods pre Katrina and now with 209,000 miles.
Water Wetter is a must have use as a radar detector or headers.
Jeff Cobb
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From:	MikeLDrew at aol.com    

Date:	Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:52 PM

To:	detomaso at realbig.com  

Subject:	[DeTomaso] Red Line Water Wetter = Good stuff!

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Hi guys, 
 
During a recent visit to the Red Line Oil factory, on impulse I bought a 
bottle of Red Line Water Wetter. 
 
http://www.redlineoil.com/product.aspx?pid=74&pcid=10 
 
I've used this stuff, on and off, for years, but hadn't put any into my 
Pantera before.   Today I took a break from working on Profiles, and I siphoned 
out an appropriate amount of coolant from the pressure tank and then dumped 
a whole bottle of Water Wetter in.   It's good for 3-5 gallons, and the 
Pantera's system is 6 3/8 gallons so arguably I could have used two bottles, 
but one is what I had so one is what I used. 
 
After topping off the cooling system, I fired it up and let it idle.   I 
could see the water temp rise until the thermostat opened, then it dropped 
suddenly as the engine got a shot of cool water from the radiator.   It 
eventually settled down right at 190 degrees on the gauge, verified by a laser 
heat 
gun on my radiator which showed 185.   (I've got a 180 degree thermostat). 
 
One fan came on, then it just sat there.   After 15 minutes, I decided to 
force the issue, and revved it up to 3000 rpm for about five minutes.   The 
temp climbed up to about 210 and the second fan was on.   I then let it 
settle back to its 850 rpm idle, and after a fairly short time, the temp dropped 
back to 190 and the second fan turned off. 
 
Nirvana! 
 
My cooling system is as old-school as it gets.   I have a standard Hall 
Pantera stock replacement radiator (brass) in the normal stand-up 
configuration, and Hall Pantera Meriah pusher fans, and a Brand X aluminum water 
pump 
from Pantera Performance Center.   Oh, and I use a RobertShaw (Flowkooler) 
180-degree thermostat instead of a cheap auto parts store thermostat. 
 
It just goes to show that one doesn't have to go to great extremes to get a 
Pantera to run at the proper temperature.   Having said that, it appears 
that the addition of water wetter may have knocked 5-10 degrees off my temps, 
because normally my car idles with both fans running once it's warmed up, 
and indicates just over 190 degrees.   At about eight bucks a bottle, that's 
one of the better improvements you can make from a cost-effectiveness 
basis.... 
 
Mike 
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