Limited cooling space

[Gary Derian]

The way I see it, the coolant now "sees" a radiator that is 1/3 as high and
3 times longer.  Why does this cool better than normal.  The log delta T is
the same, no?  Is it a flow turbulence thing?  That is the only change I
see.

Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com>


> >Someone the other day mentioned having a very confined area for a
radiator.
> >I just recalled one way of "helping".
> >It involves dividing up the radiator so that the coolant rather than just
> >going from side to side has to criss cross the radiator several times.
> >  This is done by adding several barriers internal to the side tanks.  On
> >the "cold" side of the radiator a divider plate is installed 2/3 of the
way
> >down from the top, and on the hot side, a divider is added 1/3 of the way
> >down, so the coolant has to travel back and forth 3 times rather than
once.
> >  If your out for the gold, you might have to play with the water pump
> >speed, some
> >Grumpy
>
> Grumpy--
>
> You been checking out the radiator set-up on some of the late model, aero
> nose K-Whoppers?
>
> Greg
>