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Originally Posted by Waterbug
Hi Jaydee sorry for the bigheaded worduse, but ive have been asking the same question about percent ratios, water to use instead, and, best additive,in a lot of forums and i have been either ignored, or lectiored about reading the stikys, wich i have done. The missconception is that everything is available everywhere in the world, like antifreezer, where we have green, blue, red here, that seems not to be easy to find the right colour in other countries. And as swiftech writes in their manuals, use antifreezer if you cant get HydrX, what kind of antifreezer? Prophylene or Ethylene based? And is the percent of dilution the same using either one of them? A lot of question that would be nice to know. I did by the way mailed swiftech about that particular question without any answer.
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The majority of these sites are based in the USA. People refer to the stickies and search because we get tired of the same questions being asked over and over and over.
Best thing to do is get a 50/50 premixed (50% antifreeze/50% water) antifreeze and just use it as is if distilled water is not available. If that isn't available then use 50% antifreeze and 50% of the best water you can find. You can also go with 30% antifreeze and 70% water. The more antifreeze the less the performance will be but you woun't be able to measure the difference in temps from 30% to 50%. At least I can't even with a Thermocoupler and DMM. The anti freeze I use says Ethylene Glycol and Diethylene Glycol in the ingredients.
Water Wetter use 2 ounces to the gallon. Most systems are much less than a gallon so take 1/2 gallon and mix it with 1 ounce of watter wetter then pour what you need into the system and save the rest. 1/2 gallon should be enough to fill the system. I use about 1/4 gallon in mine but don't use a resivore.
Note this is what works best for ME.
Hopefully that was a little more what your looking for.
