does water cool the same as antifreeze?

[IJ.]

LMAO!

New term for today "Sacrificial Anode" !

I guess it's like anything if you dig deep enough there's a HUGE amount of data available.

I'm still a bit freaked out by "stray current"!

 

[aljordan]

In the winter, I run a 50/50 mix of antifreeze and distilled water.

In the summer i run 25/75 of antifreeze and distailled water. It is essential to run 25% coolant to lubricate the cooling system in addition to its anticorrosive properties.

Lance Wolrab did testing on his mk4 with different coolant/water mixtures. He got the least timing retard and most mpg with the 25/75 mixture.

 

[IJ.]

Good info thanks Alan!
(I buy 70/30 premix cos I'm lazy)

 

[Supra5MGTE]

water transfers heat (engergy) better than antifreeze does. However, antifreeze helps lower and raise the boiling point and also adds water pump lube and rust inhibitors. One way to cut down on Electrolysis is use Distilled water and you can also put a zink nugget or nail in the system which will become you're sacrificial giving to the chemistry world. the nail behind the Tstat is a cheap old trick. the more expensive way is a zinc nugget hanging on the Rad cap which costsl ike $40 or somim. 50/50 is "ideal". you could run 70 water/ 30 antifreeze and be fine too, depending on where you live.