[s-cars] Coolant Heresy?

[Bill Mahoney]

Welcome back Igor!  and note that I have thoroughly cleaned my garage, tools
and generally tidied up my area in celebration of your return.
Evans has referred me to armyjeepparts.com as the supposed Audi expert for
their coolant.  Unfortunately, this looks pretty much like a one man
operation website and I have yet to hear back.  I'll keep trying to contact
as the thought of a flammable/sterno type coolant kinda turns me on in some
sic way =O
Cheers
Bill m




-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Turczyn [mailto:mturczyn at mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 12:07 PM
To: Igor Kessel; Bill Mahoney
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Coolant Heresy?


At 3:33 AM -0400 4/12/03, Igor Kessel wrote:
>Bill Mahoney wrote:
>>The only coolant that works for our cars is the Audi OEM coolant.
>>That said, has anyone ever considered Evans NPG+ Racing Coolant?
>>http://www.evanscooling.com/main31.htm
>>Supposedly it was used in the Sprongel S2 rally car.  In comparing boiling
>>point vs oem, boiling point is about 100 degrees F higher; about 370 vs
270
>>for the oem coolant.
>>My take is that it may create better detonation.
>>Geniuses?
>>Bill m
>>
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>
>Bill,
>I believe Sprongl runs a 10v engine in his S2. I myself had successfully
>run 100% Evans in my '89 200TQ with the 10v engine. I liked it a lot.
>Especially the zero-pressure feature. Pulling up into a gas station in
>the summertime and undoing the cap on the expansion reservoir with the
>scorching hot engine before the astounded attendant who was about to
>duck - priceless!
>
>Alas, Evans does not look like a viable option in the AAN, and possibly
>in the 3B too. The trouble is the water pump fails to move the denser
>Propylene Glycol coolant and the radiator passages are also too fine for
>it to move. Those who tried Evans in our cars lost water pumps radiators
>and had eventually scrapped the idea.
>


Igor-

Welcome back.  I use Evans in my race bike but I had them make up a
less viscous concoction.  They now call it Ducati racing coolant.  It
works great but is only good down to -20 F.  So if you want max
protection at the track perhaps this would work.  When you can use
Evans I believe it is the best protection you can get.

Again- glad to see you back on the list




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Mark Turczyn