Wetter water on charge cooler?
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Just got chatting over the weekend about ways of making the charge cooler setup as efficient as possible and the suggestion of that "wetter water" I think VW seem to use alot came up.

Has anyone had any experience if its worth the extra pennies and if it would be worth while using on a charge cooler setup?

Which has just made me think...do most people run antifreeze in the charge cooler systems?

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use antifreeze matty, cold weather is indescriminant, it wont treat your charge cooler any differently to your coolant system...plus its reduces corrosion

water wetter, hmmm, according to one MF expert using that plus mobil 1 gave him 6 horsepower...

its no doubt good stuff, and wont do any harm, but personally never had any experience.

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I know that most high end race cars, i.e. GP2 run entire cooling systems of the stuff. I would personally run a lot of antifreeze as i know how much water wetter costs! You just want the best liquid for a thermal transfer, how about liquid co2 or something? Lotus used to use a refrigerant which looks very similar to a a/c liquid/gas.

More here:
http://www.lotusespritworld.com/EGuides/ET...argecooler.html

We have used water wetter in the hillclimber to good effect. It definitely made the car run cooler. I would recommend it.

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i know Dan used this stuff in his R5 and it kept it a chunk cooler, thats the long and short.

it does work, and i'm sure it would be beneficial in a charge cooler.

Hmmm sounds like it could be worth while then!!

At least the charge cooling system is going to be alot smaller in capacity than an engine cooling system so that would make it a tad cheaper.

I may be able to get the VW for free, is this the same stuff as water wetter?

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not sure mate, but water wetter is cheap enough, well about £15 for a bottle that does the cooling system.

The basic function of water wetter (or similar) is to reduce the surface tension of the water, thus improving the heat transfer.

So anything that does the same job will work just as well.

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fairy liquid :)

Lol..I have heard detergent has the same effect with regards to reducing surface tension but I could imagine it would be quite abrasive too!

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Fairy liquid (or detergent) in theory would work, but for two important facts (I know it was suggested in jest):

1) It will make lots of bubbles, achieving exactly the opposite of what you want.
2) It contains salt, so not good for corrosion (or good for corrosion, depending on your stand point).

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Lol hadn't thought of the bubbles!

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Hi,
Imagine taking your rad cap off and all of a sudden your engine bay looks like an explosion in a washing machine. lol!
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