Oh please tell me the dexcool burns like a house fire!
I would have just used regular green antifreeze in the most diluted solution that I was comfortable with, what are the chances of your garage going below 0°f long enough to freeze a 0°f mixture?
Oh please tell me the dexcool burns like a house fire!
I would have just used regular green antifreeze in the most diluted solution that I was comfortable with, what are the chances of your garage going below 0°f long enough to freeze a 0°f mixture?
I seen the result of a coolant fire in a 2013 cummins with less then 20k miles. Hose blew apart and sprayed the exhaust/turbo with coolant. It burnt down in the local wal mart parking lot.
Freaked me out a bit because i never thought of coolant as flamable!
In reply to HappyAndy:
Dexcool fire is still a mystery but if its anything like Prestone it will be pretty exciting. 
Last winter during a cold spell it stayed below zero F for over a week.
Its hard to visualize but when the dyno is running one of its pre-programed simulations it generates a lot of heat. During the summer the garage would reach over a hundred degrees. Evey test has to be conducted three times to validate results. I have several cooling fans blowing on the engine plus the radiator cooling fan. There is a lot of air moving just to keep the dyno a few ticks out of the danger zone. Any sort of mishap has the potential of leveling the garage and possibly the house.
The cooling system is the weakest link and should the radiator burst or a coolant line spring a leak there is a real potential for a fire.
Antifrees and a ping pong ball. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xikLSIDBjzc
dean1484 wrote: Antifrees and a ping pong ball.
that looks more like a chemical reaction than setting the antifreeze on fire..
yes, i know that fire is a chemical reaction...
wonder what's in that "ping pong ball" that makes it do that?
I assume that it is something in the plastic. I have a couple old ping pong balls around that I am going to try this with.
Kind of a cool thing to know and possibly keep in a survival kit. Then again I am not sure you want to keep those two thing any where near each other after seeing that. Your survival kit may get incinerated if something goes wrong.
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