[DeTomaso] Red Line Water Wetter = Good stuff!

[Jerry R Knotts]

I guess I didn't get far enough into their website to find the active 
ingredients.  I have used "Activator 90 nonionic surfactant" for years with 
2-4-D agricultural weed spray.  It breaks the water surface tension and lets 
the organic mass absorbe the active ingredients by using hlorsulfuron.  It 
is about $15.00  per qt and treats 200 gallons of spray.  Would be 
interested if hlorsulfuron is one of the active ingredients or another 
nonionic, non foaming penetrating surfactant.

Always been courious but never enough to research and test the differences.


Bored and snowbound in Oklahoma,
jerry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:52 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Red Line Water Wetter = Good stuff!


> 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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