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03-03-2011, 19:26
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Aqua Hot performance
Hello Wayne, Read your post with interest, and had to get up and check downstairs on my antifreeze jug, which is the Extended life 5 yr. or 50,000 mile stuff. This antifreeze is better than the older variety, and at 50/50 will protect down to -34 degrees. At 70/30, it goes down to -84 degrees, with your 60/40 mix being somewhere in between. Here in the Charlotte, N.C. area, I don't think that in my life its ever gotten below 5 or 6 degrees, so I will use 0 as a base. You are getting on the right track by lowering your mixture ratio, because water is still the best at transferring heat, but of course it doesn't offer much freeze protection. I have always used a 50/50 mix here, mainly because the anti-corrosive properties are higher at that ratio, not that I needed the lower freeze protection. Of course all the mfg.s of this stuff recommended  a 50/50/ mix, even in the south. They love to sell you more. I now wonder if this newer 5 yr. stuff has a higher amount of anti-corrosive properties in it, and then I could get away with using  a 40 antifreeze/60 water mixture, being getting rid of heat is needed more here than anything else. I don't know where you are from, or where you travel to, as your last couple of posts don't say, but I wouldn't use any higher mixture than necessary to protect your Bird. Good Luck with your problem, I hope you get it solved soon. Are there any experts here on this forum that have kept up with the new and improved 5 yr. antifreeze? If so, I would like to know the latest on this stuff. You use to be able to replenish your antifreezes anticorrosive ability yrs. ago, but I haven't seen or even heard of it in many years. Anyone know if it is still available? Hope I have helped you a bit. Regards, George Burke 1977 FC31 Charlotte
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Wayne Kotila <"waynekotila@yahoo.com"> wrote:
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