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Subject:Re: A coolant question
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:59:14 -0400

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, tom ring wrote:

> Anyone know anything about this stuff?
>
> http://www.evanscooling.com/html/npgPls2.htm

One issue may be heat transfer capability, which they don't really talk
about except to say that NPG+ is 32% better than NPG.  The main reason you
use water/glycol mix in a cooling system is that water has a lot of heat
carrying capability, much more than glycol alone would.  Race cars run
straight water, sometimes with a little bit of wetting agent added, for
exactly this reason.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si