Reply With QuoteYou can't use glycol on a race cct in any car as far I know and thought it was due to the fact it was had to clean up after a crash and caused loss of track grip.
OldBushie
forget about colours......
dont worry about freezing....
concentrate on corrosion inhibitor, which is usually in the coolant or sold on its own...........it prevents electrolosis of the different metals used in an engine/cooling system i.e. brass, copper, aluminium, cast iron, etc.
without it one metal will eat away the other and there will be nothing but
coolant leaks everywhere...not fun. you should only have oil leaks on a landrover.
Master
You can't use glycol on a race cct in any car as far I know and thought it was due to the fact it was had to clean up after a crash and caused loss of track grip.
Master
Yep Shaunp, your right on there. Coolant on the race track is very very slippery. Distilled water is the go in bikes at any rate. All overflows on race cars must have catch tanks (15 lt for coolant 6lt for oil from memory) Some guys in cars also use distilled water as they are pulling the motors down on a regular basis, and corrosion is not such a big issue.
RoverLord
Thanks Shaunp
A mate had told me that he cant run Glycol in his Trails motorbike (they compete under CAMS rules)that lives in my shed.Obviously he was wrong as to the reason,but is he correct in saying the red stuff is glycol free????
Andrew
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Hi Antvc, [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]
Running straight water in the radiator of your 2.25 series 2a should not be a problem, the running of a GOOD quality inhibitor would be an added advantage, I suggest that you throughly flush your cooling system before adding a coolant inhibitor and to fit a Radiator Sock to your system (it fits into your top Rad hose at the Rad end) it collects all the loose scale that is in all cooling systems and helps to prevent the radiator tubes from clogging with scale, coat inside the top hose and the radiator tube with nonhardening gasket goo (permatax No3) it helps the sealing, the sock can be checked and cleaned 6monthly [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] I have been using these for 10 years [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]
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Master
Penrite certainly make a glycol free race coolant and it is red but I wouldn't take that as all red stuff is glycol free. My grandfather used to use rain water and a knob of Reckitts washing blue in his cars and the water would stay crystal clear, but these were iron engine holdens and BMC stuff I don't even know if you can still buy Reckitts washing blue.
Wizard
Supporteryep you can still buy blue - its used a bit in the country where water comes from creeks and dams to keep whites white....
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Yup! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] " Recketts Blue" to keep the water clear was one, and to keep the water pump happy and quiet "Soluable Oil" was the go, particulalary if it had a carbon thrust bearing [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]
That was in the days of being able to repair a vehicle on the side of the road without an engineering degree and a laptop computer to tell you why it did what it did 8O :? :wink:
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