Evans coolant.
 

Has any racer tried Evans coolant. Good or no good. Thanks for any help.

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I have JB worked well for me car ran a lot cooler.

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John, I have not tried it myself, but the local Evans dealer told me to expect a little higher temp. but very stable at the new temp.Bill.

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John, I ran it last season and noticed about 5 degrees cooler and temps did not reach above 170 it looked as good as when I put it in at the end of the year. I also put in a new radiator last year and it still looks brand new, not rust what so ever, it's worth the extra $$ for that reason alone to me and also lubes the water pump.

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When I inquired to my local dealer about it he concurred with prior comments but also stated it can’t be mixed with water, very $$, and once you get it ”HOT” it take a long time to cool down.
My 2 cents
Jim

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I've used it for a couple years. All the hype sounds good. I don't know of an advantage. Didn't notice any difference in it. That stuff is nasty though to get it on your hands. Their contingency program is ridiculous. It's promoted as a lifetime coolant yet you must buy a fairly large amount of it every two years to be eligible. If it's lifetime what are we to do with it?

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their contingency decal will never be on my cars.

https://classracer.com/classforum/sh...t=evans&page=3

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I bought it for their contingency. have a box of it still sitting on the shelf
last season I paid $200 won over $500 I don’t know about you but I think it was worth putting the decal on the car. I really don’t like the buy in deals where you have to buy product again the following season especially at $200 minimum
I’m not gonna have 20 boxes of Evans coolant sitting on my shelf so unfortunately I won’t be spending the $200 this year. I was planning on putting the stuff in my Dodge Street/strip car if I ever get that going again.

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Keith you know that $500 is pennies compared to the $ it cost to build and maintain a competitive car in any NHRA Sportsman class. Bottomline is I don't by into their marketing bs and therefore will never buy into the contingency program. Straight water in both my cars, NOTHING cools better!!

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How do you handle corrosion and rust with water only? The Stocker Nova I use to drive we ran water only the first year and in less than a season the water pump passages were considerably built up with corrosion. We started putting a gallon of anti freeze in it after that and no more corrosion build up. When I got my Camaro the cooling system was water only and a bunch of rusty gunk. I flushed it out several times and put Evans in it. Thanks.

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This is exactly what I do
And Ed I don’t exactly know what you mean without the help of the contingency sponsors and their postings we wouldn’t get paid
my thought is you better load up with every decal you can, winning a national at $1200 versus 8000+

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I just use water & Cooling System Rust Inhibiter from NAPA.
No problems with rust.

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Keith, I don't do this for the pennies contingency sponsors pay but my cars are stickered up with the with the products I use. 22 are contingency sponsors, the rest are not. $8,000 no mind $300 will effect my racing program.

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Me too and I use distilled water as recommended by the BeCool Radiator folks.No issues of any kind! Bill.

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I started using Evans Coolant last season and immediately saw some reduced temperature benefit, and the cooling system stayed pristine. However; for class racing it immediately became impractical when using a chiller .. given the fact that it looses its effectiveness if mixed with water.


I believe it would be ideal for any street or other performance application that maintains a closed cooling cavity, but useless for quick cool downs between rounds. Like Ed, a good clean water source and rust inhibiting additive works best.

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Thank you all for your replies. I think I will stay with water and red line water wetter.

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water wetter does nothing except lighten your wallet

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My customers have had real good luck in Circle track engine with different brands of water wetter. I think they help prevent localized boiling of the water and keep steam build up to a minimum. I suspect that most of them are just a surfactant.The reduced surface tension keeps the water in contact with the metal and it allows heat transfer instead of building steam/bubbles. I recommend that they use any good brand. I have a couple of customers that are into custom cars and restorations. Both of them swear by the Evans product. They are mostly interested in keeping cool at idle and rust build up in the system. I have not personally used Evans product.

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I never leave the water in my engine for any length of time. I drain it each day after racing. I use just plain water either from home or the track. I don't have any corrosion issues. the car also stays plenty cool. Never above 180 even on the hottest of days.

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I'm not sure if it applies to what's being sold on the retail market, but I can tell you that water additives in general are necessary thing. I worked a long time for a manufacturer and part of the job was maintaining the cooling tower and high pressure boilers. Both required additives, though each was different.


Tiny bubbles can be entrapped in the liquid and they act like an extremely aggresive sand blast sort of way. They will pit and remove metal up to absolute destruction. In addition, they are tiny pockets of insulation inside the stream and can seriously affect how much the water can reduce heat. The water can't carry away heat if there's an air bubble between it and what you're trying to contact.



Again, I have no idea of what's being sold. But from running, maintaining, and repairing million dollar systems I can vouch that it's a solid concept.

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Im currently running it switched from water to Evans because of going to Gainsville, getting the car ready in NJ was still very cold. Temperatures got to about 180 back at the trailer, was a two-mile round trip, to the lanes, the run, back to the trailer in Gainsville. So I'm somewhat happy, what im not happy about is going to their trailer and the national event with a receipt from jegs for $355 for coolant, and they told me I'm ineligible for contingency because I didn't buy it from them at a national event....fook them for that reason.

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I didn't know it was required to purchase from Evans. I sure hope their product proves to be good because their contingency requirements doesn't make sense to me. The coolant is advertised heavily as being a lifetime coolant so what are you suppose to do with all of the contingency required purchased product? I guess if you had a fleet you could use it but I don't have a fleet. I heard of a wheel company that has a similar re-purchase requirement.

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again, their contingency decal will never be on my cars.

https://classracer.com/classforum/sh...t=evans&page=3

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Why don't you guys complain about companies that don't post contingency, If you are not happy with a sponsor that is paying for contingency then don't use their product. Why would you keep complaining, so we lose another sponsor? This site should be called ClassBasher.com (where we try to kill the sport of drag racing) Anyone on here that want's to judge Evans Coolant and not the fake news, please see me at the races and I will open up my radiator cap and you can see the results for yourself, then look at a radiator core that uses just water. Lets get more sponsors on board, not chase them away. What message are we as a racing body sending to a potential sponsor. (We want your money and we will not follow your requirements) Thanks Evans Coolant, I for one use your product and got paid, Evans was one of the first ones to pay. The Water Company has never sent me a dime and my water pump, radiator and engine block loves Evans Coolant! Bash away guys.

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Mike, Evans would have sold you the same product you got from Jegs at a racer discount. If you got the 4 gallons of coolant plus 4 gallons of prep from Evans the cost would have been $224.00 I always get the 6 gallon package from them at $191.00 that's $32 dollars a gallon. This is the site address to register and how to get the racer discount packages https://www.evanscoolant.com/nhra/

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Got to read the fine print a lot of companies are like this now be careful most of them now want you to buy at the national event

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Right but, where are the national events when its -10 and snowing lol

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Then you just need to buy it again at a national event for contingency reasons and put it on the shelf! :confused:

I can understand some of the 'proof of purchase' requirements, but it seems crazy that a company wouldn't grant contingency for a proven purchase from one of their authorized distributors.