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Thread: Advanced cooling design!
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04-03-2010 #1
Advanced cooling design!
What denotes a radiators ability to cool and what percentage of cooling ability to the following attributes add.. The size and speed of fan(s).The air flow available. The size, material and number of cores.
My Porsche 911 has two 8"x10"x1" and a smaller 5"x20" centre radiator.
Do you think the two side radiators are connected in parallel and then the returns are fed into the centre radiator or the other way round!!!I'm not taking the Porsche apart. It's my daily driver and I can't afford the down time!
How much extra cooling is to be had by a separate engine oil cooler and transmission cooler? Could these extra coolers mean you could get away with smaller engine radiators?
I'm looking to design a cooling system for a twin Procharged 406 SBC which cannot have the radiators in the conventional location.
Much like the one below.
But I cannot cut my frame rails and have twin Prochargers hence I cannot use radiators the same size as above.
I did ask here before but It was deemed a cooling question. However I think the possible solution demands some physics and structured thinking with regard to air flow, fans, driving location etc...
I am considering adding a 3rd radiator above my blowers...
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04-03-2010 #2
This may sound like an off the wall suggestion.
Look into coolers made for water cooling a computer. They are using some different tube design techniques with very high fin counts which increase cooling efficiency. I think you may be served well to run a combo of series and parallel, left and right in parallel and a series of smaller coolers on each side. Does anyone offer an over/under setup for the chargers vs the side by side setup.
I must say I am intrigued by your dilemma.Sean
The difference between stupidity and genius.... genius has limits
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04-04-2010 #3