Coolant change for trackdays - SV650.org

11-06-05, 01:50 AM

Having failed to find roads with corners here in Michigan, I am turning to trackdays to stop my tyres wearing out only in the middle. I have done a few in the UK, on sportier bikes, so it's going to be interesting to see how the SV does. List of stuff to do:
Fit Pirelli Diablos
Fit R6 throttle tube
More rear preload
Tape up everything
change coolant (anti freeze is banned, as it's slippy)

Yeah, that last bit is a pain. Trackdays here seem to be much more serious affairs than in the UK. I had to search to find a company that doesn't ask me to lock wire every bolt! So, to get to the point - has anyone run a non-antifreeze coolant in their SV before? I need to use just distilled water or a race coolant, but I'm worried about the effect on the pump (the manual says the anitfreeze lubricates it).

Thanks.

11-06-05, 07:53 AM

dump the coolant, stick in distilled water, go thrash it at the track, dump water, put new coolant back in....sorted

it will be fine to run water in the short term, long term keeping the water in there will cause the pump to rust up as anti freeze is also a corrosion inhibitor

12-06-05, 07:17 AM

http://www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp

northwind · 12-06-05, 06:40 PM

I think most of the US SV racers use Water Wetter...

11-06-05, 01:50 AM	#1
sim Guest Posts: n/a	Coolant change for trackdays Having failed to find roads with corners here in Michigan, I am turning to trackdays to stop my tyres wearing out only in the middle. I have done a few in the UK, on sportier bikes, so it's going to be interesting to see how the SV does. List of stuff to do: Fit Pirelli Diablos Fit R6 throttle tube More rear preload Tape up everything change coolant (anti freeze is banned, as it's slippy) Yeah, that last bit is a pain. Trackdays here seem to be much more serious affairs than in the UK. I had to search to find a company that doesn't ask me to lock wire every bolt! So, to get to the point - has anyone run a non-antifreeze coolant in their SV before? I need to use just distilled water or a race coolant, but I'm worried about the effect on the pump (the manual says the anitfreeze lubricates it). Thanks.

12-06-05, 06:40 PM	#4
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	I think most of the US SV racers use Water Wetter... __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

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11-06-05, 07:53 AM	#2
weegaz22 Guest Posts: n/a	dump the coolant, stick in distilled water, go thrash it at the track, dump water, put new coolant back in....sorted it will be fine to run water in the short term, long term keeping the water in there will cause the pump to rust up as anti freeze is also a corrosion inhibitor

12-06-05, 07:17 AM	#3
Ziguy Guest Posts: n/a	http://www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp