I would say the reason for aluminium radiators are:
- stronger material
- easy mounting together with plastic parts
- durable core against impacts
- big radiators are lighter than copper ones.
the advantage for copper is:
- better heat conducting by a copper core
- smaller radiator possible
disadvantage of a copper core
- less durable because of the very thin copper
- soldered brass and copper parts instead of welded fitting
- weight
> Really-
> In practical use it seems with my experience that Aluminum is a better
> conductor-
> I have a 2 row x 1" aluminum radiator that will run circles around any
> copper radiators I've used , including a custom
> 4 row I had made- Plus I have a hard time believing a Copper radiator is
> the same weight since I actually weighed mine and saved a ton of weight with
> approximately the same dimensions- Maybe Theory is not all its cracked up to
> be in certain real world applications?
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