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Understanding Water Types for Cooling Systems

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This step involves important educational information about water types for cooling systems. Distilled water is explained to be detrimental over time because, stripped of its minerals, it actively seeks to 'grab onto' metallic elements like aluminum in the radiator, leading to corrosion, rust, and eventual clogging. In contrast, de-ionized (DI) water is electrically charged to ensure its molecules remain stable and do not aggressively interact with the radiator's metal, promoting longevity and optimal function. Serck Motorsport exclusively uses DI water for all its processes.

Goal: Educate on the best water type for cooling systems.

Tools and materials

  • De-ionized — Recommended cooling fluid for preventing corrosion
  • Distilled Water N/A — Demonstrating an unsuitable cooling fluid

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when we came here before you were talking about uh why distilled water is actually bad and I've never heard that before so some issues with distilled water um we can get it scientific as possible on it yeah it's trying to find whatever came to grab onto or the distilled water loses all its properties and so then it starts trying to grab onto the aluminum and your tubes inside and that's when it starts creating the rust discoloration negative things to start trailing that uh your tubes get clogged up so the best thing we we've always used and tell our customers Is deionized water and what that the ionized water is electronically uh charged to strip its properties to where it doesn't it can all the molecules stay together to where it's not trying to reach out and grab onto the aluminum and where it all it does is flow cool exactly what it's supposed to where did that myth come from because it's like you know oh don't use the hose water make sure it's distilled and like didn't you say hose water could actually be better than distilled water it can be depending on how there's a lot of hard water that's the town we're in has very hard and abrasive water so we don't recommend that um but best thing is just deionized um and that way it's it's not not harmful to anything at all um other than trying to locate where it's at but they make deionized machines and then our local Supply SRI um keeps it keeps it in barrels for us you go out of our way to find distilled water to put in because you think it's necessary it's like actually is that like a myth that was perpetuated by the radiator manufacturers keep it keep your keep your radiators dirty instead of uh instead of cleaning it or damaging it just buy a new one um maybe that maybe that could be variable where it came from

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