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It's going to rain next weekend at Road Atlanta because it's been great for the last month of blue skies and well you know, its Lemons...
I don't have a blower for the inside. Has anyone had any luck with Anti Fog? All the Amazon reviews are 2.5 stars. Anyone had personal good experience with a particular brand in a Lemons race?
FWIW the anti-fog spray for ski goggles is just aerosol peanut oil. May work on the inside of a windshield, never tried.
For last year's rain and more rain and more rain and more rain fest at RA we coated the inside with 3 layers of Rainx Antifog after cleaning the window thoroughly BEFORE we left the shop. Unloaded, started the race, and within 2 laps driver #1 called in and said he could not see anything! Out came the only other antifog device we used effectively: Rag On A Stick. By end of day one, we had a rag completely dripping from the cleaning wipes. Saturday night we ran a heater to dry out the car, smeared toothpaste on one side and ivory soap on the other side. Both did absolutely nothing to help Sunday morning.
In basically monsoon rains, with temps in the low to mid 30's, with water sloshing on the floorboards and being steamed off by the exhaust, I don't know what you could use as a wipe on to keep the fog down. Defroster blowers or heat strips appear to be the only solution.
Answer is stock defroster. Failing that, aftermarket grid defroster. Failing that, Barbasol...and maybe rag on a stick.
We have had success with anti-fog on one car, complete failure on another. Depends entirely on how much heat your plant dumps into the interior and how the moving air pulls it out. (Read: completely different for every car)
Don’t rely on anti-fog. Keep your factory defroster.
Two words: Interior Wiperblade
Two words: Interior Wiperblade
I don't think "wiperblade" is one word.
At least not for Scrabble purposes.
For last year's rain and more rain and more rain and more rain fest at RA we coated the inside with 3 layers of Rainx Antifog after cleaning the window thoroughly BEFORE we left the shop. Unloaded, started the race, and within 2 laps driver #1 called in and said he could not see anything! Out came the only other antifog device we used effectively: Rag On A Stick. By end of day one, we had a rag completely dripping from the cleaning wipes. Saturday night we ran a heater to dry out the car, smeared toothpaste on one side and ivory soap on the other side. Both did absolutely nothing to help Sunday morning.
In basically monsoon rains, with temps in the low to mid 30's, with water sloshing on the floorboards and being steamed off by the exhaust, I don't know what you could use as a wipe on to keep the fog down. Defroster blowers or heat strips appear to be the only solution.
This is your second car so you should have learned to never remove the defroster. Live and learn man!
We had no fogging issues at RA, because we retained the stock defroster, but still couldn't see sh*t. With all the spray from other cars, our wipers just couldn't keep up, and Rain-X doesn't do jack for small droplets like spray.
We run the inner defroster kit and a fan inside is the only way to go.
chemical anti-fog is hit or miss. Works great on some cars, doesn't work at all on others. All due to how much water gets sucked in, how hot your floors are, how much airflow you get near the glass, etc.
the DIY electric defrost grids are amazing, though, and they're under $100. If you've ditched your stock HVAC system, get one of those and install it this week.
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