What coolant are you running poll

[toytech]

BeCool blue coolant , it matches the color of my banshee, and works great

[JSHEE34756]

I was running Engine ice till my radiator broke, Now I am running 50/50 Advanced auto parts green crap with 2 ounces water wetter, Seems to run about the same temps as the ice did. Has anyone ever put a radiator fan on there banshee? Probably not cause the stator limitations but just curious.

Edited May 27, 2010 by JSHEE34756

[jamebo]

50/50 water and Texaco antifreeze (green)

[Drewski]

Coolaid

[sangheraent]

i use 80-20 antifreeze(20) and water(80).

[bad 350 shee]

I run the cheapest 50/50 antifreeze that wal mart sells.

 

lol me to

[Koolguyson]

Straight water in my drag bikes and 50/50 in my mx bikes.

[MN SHEE]

i run 50/50 in the but my work car i run water cause it eats it

[ClimbAnyHill]

Jet that banshee right and shee won't overheat. Straight water will evaporate some. Things don't really freeze in cali but they do get hot. Antifreeze helps with both cold and hot + protects metal from corrosion. I run the 50/50 Prestone stuff and never had a prob in the cooling area. I am curious bout Coolanol though..

[250psd]

With my last Banshee I was running water wetter and distilled water. The new Banshee has 50/50 in it. Don't notice a difference. I just wouldn't ever use straight tap water though, with all the minerals and crap in it.

[Koolguyson]

Jet that banshee right and shee won't overheat. Straight water will evaporate some. Things don't really freeze in cali but they do get hot. Antifreeze helps with both cold and hot + protects metal from corrosion. I run the 50/50 Prestone stuff and never had a prob in the cooling area. I am curious bout Coolanol though..

 

Couldn't really tell if you were saying this or not...but coolant raises the water temperature. So the less coolant you run, the cooler your motor will be. Coolanol is alright, but stains.

[AKheathen]

prestone dex-cool 50/50. this stuff is a lubricant, too. antifreeze doesn't rais the temp, it transfers heat, among othwr things, better, so the coolant may be hotter, but it just means more heat is getting out of the cyls, which is the whole point, right? water will turn into an electrolyte quickly, and start corroding everything.

[Koolguyson]

prestone dex-cool 50/50. this stuff is a lubricant, too. antifreeze doesn't rais the temp, it transfers heat, among othwr things, better, so the coolant may be hotter, but it just means more heat is getting out of the cyls, which is the whole point, right? water will turn into an electrolyte quickly, and start corroding everything.

 

That is actually not accurate. It raises the cylinder temperature because it does not offer the same thermal transfer coefficient as straight tap water. Which also means it takes longer to cool down.

 

Coolant is only needed in high temp (raises boiling point) and low temp (lowers freezing point) while providing corrosion protection via inhibitors. It is NOT meant to lower the operating temperature of an engine.

[Quadatic20]

I run Engine Ice in all my rides...

[AKheathen]

That is actually not accurate. It raises the cylinder temperature because it does not offer the same thermal transfer coefficient as straight tap water. Which also means it takes longer to cool down.

 

Coolant is only needed in high temp (raises boiling point) and low temp (lowers freezing point) while providing corrosion protection via inhibitors. It is NOT meant to lower the operating temperature of an engine.

you can go ahead and run tap water if you want, lol...i'm sure you meant distilled/purified water.......ok, i will agree that water has a greater heat capcity than glycol, speaking specifically on the media itself. however, the full effect of heat transfer from the cylinders to the air are also dependent on transfer to, and from the coolant cyl to air. glycols will maintain a higher transfer rate in a system much longer than water, and at higher speeds. what happens is that it will reach a point where the flow will exceed it's ability to transfer, and retain the heat, also creating moderate thermal barriers. this effect will happen sooner with water, than glycol. the only problem i see with that would be a long, high rpm pull. the additives in watter wetter and engine ice aide in the transfer to/from the coolant at the surfaces and keep the thermal barriers down. btw, the best mixture at the track was watter/"coolant"/watter wetter, more so than watter/watter wetter.