I/C Spray Light on dash
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LOL no drinking water has minerals, the reason you use distilled water is the minerals from tap/drinking water will build up inside the pump, hoses, bottle, and sprayer. and when that happens you get no more IC spray. which means no more cool intercooler, which means you go slower, and thats not what we want now is it? so use "DISTILLED WATER" kk thx plz pull thru to next window~
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If you want to get the best solution without using alchohol or other chemicals, then try de-ionized water. It does a better job in sticking to and coating the aluminum ic. Therefore the heat transfer is something like three times better. An added benefit is that because it in de-ionized, it will never cause corrosion. I learned this from a guy racing a gt mazda rx7 at road america last year.
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Originally Posted by Respek
If you want to get the best solution without using alchohol or other chemicals, then try de-ionized water. It does a better job in sticking to and coating the aluminum ic. Therefore the heat transfer is something like three times better. An added benefit is that because it in de-ionized, it will never cause corrosion. I learned this from a guy racing a gt mazda rx7 at road america last year.
Ok, this one sounds reasonable, but as far a clogging the hoses... come on.... have your winshiled wipers ever clogged up on you? do you use de-ionized water there?
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Distilled water doesn't have minerals in it. So when you're spraying your intercooler and that water evaporates it doesn't leave stuff on there that could corrode the intercooler. Yes the intercooler is aluminium, but there are so many things in tap water that aren't even in rain water which will cause corrosion(chlorine) and there are higher levels of others which exacerbate the condition.
Originally Posted by AriAllen
Ok, this one sounds reasonable, but as far a clogging the hoses... come on.... have your winshiled wipers ever clogged up on you? do you use de-ionized water there?
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Originally Posted by Ditchhanger
It's also to prevent the aluminum from rusting as well as other components...
Aluminum can't rust...it's already coated with a layer of aluminum oxide ('aluminum rust') because air 'rusts' aluminum in less than a few seconds. Deionized, or distilled, water (they're basically the same thing) will make it harder for iron and steel to form iron oxide, which is rust. Compared to tap water I mean.
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Originally Posted by AriAllen
wait a minute so you drink , but o uwont put it in your car?
What about bottled water, same thing right?
What about bottled water, same thing right?
The stuff that's in tap and drinking water can be good for life (except the chlorine and a few other things that they try to filter out...); but very bad for build up in lines like for an I/C sprayer.
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Originally Posted by AriAllen
Ok, this one sounds reasonable, but as far a clogging the hoses... come on.... have your winshiled wipers ever clogged up on you? do you use de-ionized water there?
Old cars do have problems with clogged windsheild wiper hoses. Also, with wipers you usually have cleaner in there with the water which, gasp, cleans the hoses as well as your windsheild.
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