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Liquid Performance - Water Wetter - Engine Ice?
Also, which if any can be mixed with regular antifreeze or water?
Also, which if any can be mixed with regular antifreeze or water?
The Shop
Any brand of antifreeze mixed 50-50 with distilled or deionized water and a capful of hyperlube additive or water wetter will work just as good as engine ice at a fraction of the price.
I (personally) don't think the straight glycol coolants are a good idea- they have very high boiling point to prevent boiling over, but I am not sure they cool as well. If you are boiling over, higher boiling coolant is treating the symptoms and not the disease.
Now I live in Chicago, I always run 50/50 LOL.
You are correct.
Except that pure water with some water wetter "Cools" better than anything. It wont add any boilover protection though.
You're gonna boil at 212* plus whatever your particular pressure cap affords you.(Hence some run higher pressure caps)
50/50 Sierra and Distilled and some water wetter here. Year round.
Cheap easy and it works.
Glycol is only for freeze and boilover protection. It doesn't cool for shit really other than being there.
And if you have a thermostat, it will never run cooler than that(once up to temp)
edit: this is from the xf2 product page
It is race proven and guaranteed to stop overheating and boil over in your racing 2-stroke and 4-stroke. And since it is waterless, it will out perform traditional coolants. Besides superior boil over protection (-60°F to +387°F), XF2 operates at safer pressures which causes less stress on engine components, increasing their life and reliability. Removing the water component prevents oxidation and erosion of the jacket metal, electrolysis and resulting contamination and fluid destruction. XF2 prevents cavitation and vapor hot spots that create non-uniform metal expansion rates resulting in seizure.
Bel-Ray Moto Chill
You can email our Tech Department with any technical questions sirtech@belray.com
Pit Row
I ran Engine Ice.
truthfully, you could go down to walmart and run supertech coolant in your bike and it wouldnt make a difference
jus sayin..
Some might have a different dye or corrosion package, but I feel thats moot I a dirt bike application. Many cars are running the same coolant for 20 years!
of all the bikes i owned, the only one that had any corrosion was my old mid 90s kx80 that sat in a shed with a blown engine for a few years..the rest never did.
Both Ethelyne Glycol and Propylene Glycol raise the boiling point of water. I think Ethylene is better as an antifreeze. (Traditional, green Prestone or auto parts store stuff.)
Propylene glycol is better at the very top of the boiling temp because it has better cling properties; it will cling to the metal on the inside of your radiator better and allow more heat transfer. Ethylene will start to bubble and the bubbles take space on the metal, thus reducing the cooling capacity. The eventual end result is a runaway overheat (sooner than the same would happen with propylene, assuming heat is continually added to the system.)
I know the Bel-Ray stuff is propylene glcol, and I believe Engine Ice is too. Liquid Performance may also be, based on its color.
The best part about propylene glcol is that your dog won't die if you spill some in his water dish.
always drain stock coolant out of bikes now and replace with engine ice. Wouldn't use anything else
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