C. Pirouette,
I sincerely doubt that air flow around the engine block is any
significant contributor to cooling. However, getting the hot air that
was transferred from the engine to the air through the radiator flowing
easily out into the external air is the idea.
My RED TOI (See "My LIfe With Cars",
http://www.tigersunited.com/articles/sl-mc/SteveLaifman.asp ) has the
radiator at an extreme laid back position, with the Fiero stock radiator
and electric fan, at the front. The heat generating engine block of the
V-6 is almost completely surrounded by body work and hot exhaust pipes,
yet runs cool.
Steve
pirouette@charter.net wrote:
>>......this can't account for all of the troubles. Look at the modern
>>cars! I mean so crowded that you can't see any ground looking from the top.
>>Now they start putting covers over most of the engine compartment and now a
>pan
>>under most of the car
>>
>>
>
>I have to agree. I have a '93 Z-24 (a Cavalier with a six stuffed in it) --
>all of the above applies, plus it has zero air flow space and the 'plastic'
>snout special to this model essentially baffles off most direct flow to the
>radiator. Never overheats. Why???
> cph
>
>
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