4 tenths faster from running Water Wetter in your coolant?

[Tooky]

I was reading http://www.syty.org/archives/syty/0011/msg00795.html and Reed Mueller said "I run 1/4 mile times about .25 -.3 tenths faster with water wetter in my intercooler and about .4 tenths total faster when it's in my radiator too. "This has been documented and was the cheapest HP improvement I've ever done on my 92' GMC Typhoon truck that does 0-60 in 4.3 seconds in pretty much stock form."

I bought some Water Wetter from Summit a few months ago, haven't put it in the IC yet since I was going to be draining it shortly and didn't want to waste it. Can I really expect to see any type of improvements from running it? I just bought it to try and figured I might see a half tenth improvement or something but this talk about a minimum of .25 tenths sounds unrealistic. Anyone who can verify this information first hand? I do beleive the cooling system can produce horsepower gains when tweaked so I'm interested in dissecting this.

 

[warmpancakes]

I ran it 2 bottles of watter weter to pure distilled in the IC and the intake temps were lower. But id wait until spring to put it in, or try the royal purple purple ice

 

[Eluding]

Tooky, in the summer I run one bottle of Water Wetter and distilled water in my IC. The IAT temps average about 10 degrees coolers, than with a 50/50 mix of antifreeze/distilled water. BUT, I feel most of that improvement comes from removing the antifreeze from the system. Straight water cools more effectively than antifreeze. I use the Water Wetter mainly for protecting the IC system against corrosion when using the distilled water.

 

[Lynn D. Brown]

0.4 Sec from Water Wetter

0.4 Sec from Water Wetter

I very seriously doubt that anyone will get a 0.4 sec improvement
in their 1/4 mile time just by adding water wetter. Very roughly, that
would represent about a 40-50 HP, or 12-14 %, increase in HP.

The main thing that water wetter is going to do 4 U is to lower the
air inlet temp, and perhaps pull a little more heat out of the engine,
which could allow more boost. To get a 50 HP increase from the
engine, U would have to lower the air inlet T about 60-70 Deg F, and
there's no way WW is going to do this.

If U mean that it lowered the KR significantly, and allowed U to use
alot more boost, then maybe. A # of boost can get U 0.15-0.20 sec/
# of boost, so 2-3 # could get U the 0.4 sec, as long as the KR's don't
go up sigtnificantly.

 

[UNIsackV6]

Yeah I agree with Lynn, don't expect it to do too much. Think of it as a small part of the entire performance picture. I really hated the stock water set up, pumps are too small, CAC is small, intercooler is in the worst possible friggin place (hmmmm lets see Mr.Engineer where should we put the IC? hmmm how about right over the turbo/downpipe? Ok but pass me the crack pipe first I need another hit) IMHO if you can afford it a front mount A2A is the way to go, you loose all that weight, no pumps etc to worry about, new location will give you lots of fresh cool air, and its a very simple yet effective way to go.

Tookster, if your motor is running hot you could try running Evans NPG, however, keep in mind the following:

1) Evans is pretty expensive, $100 for 5 gallons.
2) Evans is very flammable so you have to be very careful.
3) If you lose a hose and pour all the coolant on the parking lot at the Nats you better have extra because you cannot mix anything with Evans.

But in the heat of the summer it will keep things cooler, check out their website it has some good informational articles for you to read.
http://www.evanscooling.com/html/dwnld1.htm

Ryan
'92 Ty
11.60 @ 125 w/2.1 60'