rad and coolant, TPEFI related

Brad Campbell bcampbel at omen.com.au
Fri Oct 24 04:40:27 GMT 1997


At 12:14 AM 10/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>If I understand correctly it basically just breaks the surface tension
>of the water and somehow that's supposed to help cool the engine.  I've
>never tried it but I've heard mixed results.  I've also heard that a
>Kodak photo developing chemical called photo-flow does the same thing. 
>If I remember high school photography class correctly, photo-flow is
>mixed with water to help rinse the developing chemicals off of negatives
>and prints.  Kinda makes sense that it would eliminate surface tension,
>you wouldn't want little drops of water to kling on the negatives and
>leave stains.  

Sounds like you could do a similar thing by putting some non-foaming
detergent in the cooling system ?? anybody anybody ?
I'm certainly no expert on the chemistry of detergents.

Brad....



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