Water Wetter coolant additive

[Monsta]

I posted this in another forum a while ago and didn't really get a solid response. So Fred(PalmerWMD) suggested to me that I should post it on here. Here it is.......................

Has anyone ever used the product called Water Wetter? I heard of it and seen it but I never tried it. It’s supposed to lower the coolant temperature in the system. As long as I’ve seen these hocus pocus products, I never heard anything bad about Water Wetter. I’m going to try it.

Also instead of installing a coolant temp gauge, is there a way to get this reading from the ECU through the trip computer? When the A4 1.8T came out, I read that you could push a sequence of the HVAC buttons and get different readings on the digital display out of the ECU. I wonder if we can do that on the 350Z?

[s13sr20chris]

i have used water wetter and i did not notice any lower coolant temps. however i will continue to use it as the theory is good. i believe in the product very much. i use 30%coolant 70%water and one bottle of ww.

i am not aware of any thing like that on the 350z. i know of hvac self diag mode but that is useless to anyone other than a tech.

[sanioll]

old post, but

water wetter, i assume would increase the rate of heat exchange.

meaning, your engine looses its heat to coolant better. it looses more heat to coolant, which is good for your engine.

technically your coolant now must be abit more hotter, while engine is running at lower temperature than before.

since coolant now is at hiigher temps, then it will start loosing those high temps to air thru radiator much better.

heat is like a spring, more heat, and think of spring is being compressed and pushing back harder. so much at much higher temps of coolant, radiator will start loosing heat more, beucase temp difference between radiator and ambient air is bigger than before. think of it as difference on voltage at different terminals, higher the voltage, more force pushing electrons thru.

^ above is just my thinking, it maynot apply to water wetter though.

[elwesso]

Water wetter can actually cause HIGHER temps at the sending unit, but it removes the heat from the heads and combustion areas.. Those few degrees in the summer can mean the difference between detonation and not...

[NISTECH]

sure fire way to test this is start a car with standard mix in it, note the ambient temp. Next add the water wetter and run the car in the same ambient temp. In each case use an infared gun and measure the surface temp of the head after a specific run time pre designated before doing the experament. In both cases the time frame should be done from a cold soak of more then 6 hrs.

[sanioll]

sure fire way to test this is start a car with standard mix in it, note the ambient temp. Next add the water wetter and run the car in the same ambient temp. In each case use an infared gun and measure the surface temp of the head after a specific run time pre designated before doing the experament. In both cases the time frame should be done from a cold soak of more then 6 hrs.

perfect idea, but cant be done in the garage. the ambient temperature after 6 hours will be different.

note the air temp, then next day, test it when air temp reaches same levels.

P.S. I might do it, just replaced the coolant. might as well add water wetter later.