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Advanced Water-Based Cleaning and Purging

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Formula One Radiator Service Will Change Your Opinion About "Clean" (Serck Motorsport Tour)

What happens here

After the initial oil-based cleaning and testing, radiators and oil coolers are transferred to a water-based cleaning rig. This rig is equipped with advanced 1-micron filters, capable of removing particles even smaller than a red blood cell. The entire process within this rig is computer-programmed, similar to a CNC machine, to perform a series of up to 16 cleaning and flushing steps. This ensures an extremely thorough cleaning that removes even the finest contaminants, bringing the coolers to a 'better than new' condition. The final step in this rig involves purging all the water out of the cooler with compressed air.

Goal: Achieve 'better than new' cleanliness for coolers.

Tools and materials

  • 1-Micron Filters — Ultra-fine filtration of cleaning fluid
  • Compressed Air — Purging all water from the cooler after cleaning

What they say

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inside there and then it'll get ready to go on our stage two rig this is a water-based three that um has one micron filters underneath and again cleaning everything out um very similar to the other stage one rig except this is again like I said a water-based were these made in England and then sent over here um a lot of it was pretty much everything on the rig side um how to connect the radiators to This was um you know kind of designed here just because we have a great connection with brown and Miller Racing solutions that have been a great partner and with designing and getting everything made to where we can connect to generally any kind of cooler and when you were doing engines over there and had no knowledge of this technology how was how were your radiators cleaned um ultrasonic cleaned and just flushed out which is kind of amazing like a parts washer hose isn't going to clean out as as much as the any kind of block um even the cup engines are come from Top Notch facilities where every block is cleaned um to to their own spec but they still have containments in there to where your radiator turns into a water filter so after so long um after One race your radiator goes from 100 efficiency down to I don't know 80 because there's there's so much crap packed into your your tubes um and then even the fins to where if you're not cleaned properly after each race you're showing up to the next race you know with with less efficiency than what it should be what did you think whenever you were first exposed to this um from your old tribal knowledge it was kind of strange um because like I said it's a whole new whole new thing over here to where it's like you said tribal knowledge to where everybody's we've all seen it this way this is how we've done it um and then this whole new building whole new everything shows up saying that you've been doing it wrong for x amount of years so it is kind of a lot to take in um but I'm a whole believer in it especially seeing um kind of what it's doing for just our shark track customers who have always had heating issues being a shorter tracks um you know smaller Grill openings to where this has been a huge deal for them and then all sort track racing um and then now it's expanded up to the truck guys and XFinity and cup to where they can apply more tape to the nose of the grill more downforce and still have decent temperatures where they're not overheating to where they can apply more tape to the nose of their Grill more…

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