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Ken_Parkman
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Much worse than oil.
Oil they have the technology to clean. Having been loose in it at the 1200 foot mark I can verify it was a puckering experience. Did stay shiny side up. This was at an evening race, and a street car had puked the entire engine at the top end. They worked on it for an hour and I was one of the first reasonably quick slick cars. Extraordinarily disturbing when your engine suddenly revs out of control and hit the rev limiter when you are already doing 130. Shut it down for another hour to work on the track more. Anti freeze is bad stuff. Not practical to take it out of a street car though.
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DragRacingSpirit
AMC Addicted Joined: May/27/2009 Location: Mo Status: Offline Points: 903 |
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I have always used antifreeze in my race car. Luckily I never had a problem but I guess I need to change that.
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Best 1/4 mile 8.99, 1/8 mile 5.71, 60 foot 1.27, no power adders
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idrambler
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The rule at our local track is 13.99 and quicker water only....but since newer cars can run into the 11's not sure how that may apply now...I think I will leave antifreeze in the AMX this year...and only change out the Gremlin....I put coolant in it in the winter....do not like fixing freeze plugs....
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Jim....AMCRC
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purple72Gremlin
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Interesting.....sure makes you think
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ccowx
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At Mission Raceway in Vancouver BC they don't want the antifreeze, though I have not seen them enforce it stringently on street cars. They seem to not be excessively worried if there is a catch bottle. The permissable option seems to be "Water Wetter", which does give the boilover and corrosion protection, but does not help with freezing. Might be an option for garage kept cars and those in California.
Chris
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amxron
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Distilled water works great.
Ron.
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AMXron
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Rebel Machine
AMC Addicted Joined: Jul/03/2007 Location: Western Il Status: Offline Points: 5118 |
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How do you flush out existing antifreeze? The block has drain plugs but that won't get it all out. Do you just refill with water, run it, drain it and repeat several times? -Steve-
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PHAT69AMX
AMC Addicted Joined: Jul/07/2007 Location: West Virginia Status: Offline Points: 5905 |
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An old Prestone Flush Kit pieces, Garden hose adapter Tee from kit Tee in-line of heater hose, kit provided "spout" snaps into radiator neck, piece if 1" or so clear hardware store hose on spout, start motor, start engine, flush system, repeat maybe ?
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Rebel Machine
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I've been reading a bunch on what to use for coolant. Arguments about de-ionized water, distilled water, Water Wetter..... there are a ton of opinions. It's going to be a pain to swap coolant and antifreeze twice a year just to hit the track a few times. -Steve- |
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javsst
AMC Nut Joined: Jul/02/2007 Location: Lebanon, NJ Status: Offline Points: 435 |
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It sounds as though not too long in the future you'll only be seeing EVs running at the track :) Definitely going to be a pain if you occasionally run a car at the track. Also, I recall when Englishtown was open, there was always a few of the imports that would blow something and they would dump synth oil on the track and it would quite a while to get that cleaned up over regular oil. Steve
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