[Fot] aluminum radiators again

[Peter Vucinic]

Jack,
A very interesting topic indeed! As I understand it there is only a marginal
difference between the thermal efficiency/heat transfer of Copper over
Aluminum materials. If it's weight saving we are talking about, then it's
Aluminum. I am wondering whether those members seeing good cooling
temperature reductions/stability with the Aluminum Radiator Cores, are
seeing this occur due to the internal design of the radiator? Are the 'new'
Aluminum radiators cooling the water more efficiently as a direct result of
'passing' the coolant through the core more times? That is, are the
radiators single, double or triple pass?





-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces+pvucinic=netspace.net.au at autox.team.net
[mailto:fot-bounces+pvucinic=netspace.net.au at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Jack W. Drews
Sent: Monday, 9 June 2008 11:34 PM
To: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: [Fot] aluminum radiators again

Good to hear from Jeff and Mike that they make standard size radiators work.

A cautionary note, though -- if you want to get an aluminum replica 
of a stock radiator, be sure to get one that some other racer has 
used and found successful. I've installed a couple of them for guys 
who had already purchased them, and they were sorely disappointed in 
the small improvement, if any, that it made. Apparently there is a 
difference between various suppliers.

uncle jack 
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