I've also heard about the effects the chemicals have on your seals.

 

The `97 has the Dexcool,the `98 has the green Prestone.

 

The 96 is is runnin green and the 04still has dexcrap in it till it warms up enough to drain it and run water in it for a couple of months in the summer to make sure its all flushed out...orange and green make mud and that aint good

 

I had DexCRAP until my intake gaskets were replaced. Now I'm running an extended life universal coolant.

 

orange dex in all 3 of my vehicles. I've always done regular maintenance with all of them, and have never had a problem with it. Thats why I put it back in even w/ my L67 swap in the monte.

 

In my intercooler i have straight water with a bottle of water wetter. I'll switch to a 50/50 mix of coolant once winter hits again

And in the engine right now Im running a 25 coolant 75 water mix

Im using orange dex

 

I don't know Parrot, you may want to flush out the Dex...I'd hate to see all of that hard work go to waste. That's just my opinion though. Good luck and have fun with the extra boost!

 

i use to use dex cool, but now i have switched to the universal coolant that you can use with any vehicle or colored coolant. any one else use this? and if not is it ok for me to be using it or should i switch back to the GM dex cool.

 

Dex Cool has a rust inhibitor in it - Anything from GM with dex cool in it comes with different seals and gasket to prevent the dex cool from eating them- You would need a full flush to go back to green as if Green mixes with dex-cool it becomes almost a jelly and plugs stuff up. And never go from standard green to dex as your vehicle will not have the proper seals and it WILL eat them. You can use what they call a "all makes all models". This is like a Long Life antifreezeand lesscorosive as either of the two, also allot less cooling capacity.