At 01:34 AM 4/29/98 -0500, Douglas Pruitt wrote:
>At 12:12 AM 4/29/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>Steve, seems to me like the amount of air flowing through a car radiator
is a
>>function of three things:
>>
>>1. The pressure on one side of the radiator.
>>
>>2. The pressure on the other side of the radiator.
>>
>>3. The "resistance" that the radiator offers to the flow of air.
>>
>>I don't see no steenkin' horn holes in there anywhere.
>>
>>I suggest that at idle, or a slow in-traffic crawl, you can plug those holes
>>or you can blow the front fenders off the car and it's gonna have
>diddly-squat
>>impact on the amount of air going through the radiator . . . no, wait!
>>Blowin' the front fenders off the car might help a bit! It would certainly
>>"help" the cooling situation more than pluggin' those horn holes would!!!
>
> You don't suppose, that when sitting still, some of that hot air that
>was
>just pulled through the radiator would try to get out of the engine
>compartment and would head towards that low pressure area in front of the
>radiator do you? Would it go under the radiator or through the horn holes?
>If it did wouldn't that recirculated HOT air be a little less efficient at
>cooling the water?
>
>
>Doug Pruitt
>Maryland
>Narf!
>
>
Tiger Coupe.......
Where are you when we need you Dick??!! 'Bout time we heard about some of
your exhaustive research into cool'in Tiggers!! Spread Eagle on the hood
at 65+ MPH measuring heat displacement? Com'on Tiger Coupe, speak!!
Allan (...the neophite and damn proud of it!)
B9472373
|