The two guys, Tiger Tom and sorry my memory slips me on the name of the
other guy who did the cooling study, had excellent engineering results,
with accurate measurement done in a professional engineering fashion.
Tom is an engineer, but the results would do any engineering study proud.
It was commented before that this issue comes up once a year, so if you
really want to read real results that can be applied to a Tiger that
work, this is it.
If you want to revisit the academic side, do so as it might be educational.
I talked to the two researcher/engineers as an engineer myself, and what
they did, and the wealth of data not published supports good engineering
work.
Funny, most people don't seem to read what has been done before, just
human nature I guess.
Larry
drmayf wrote:
> Every year or so I want the threads of "cooling my tiger" come up, get
> discussed, and passed around until it seems to just die out until the
> next year or so. Sorta like a virus, lol. This is not a bad thing
> because it re aquaints everyone with the issues and infuses new owners
> with the oddities of our cars. I did notice that there are at least
> two list members who have the background to do an analysis of our cars
> cooling system from end to end. I am not talking about view foil
> engineering here, but real analytical thinkling with real numbers. I
> think it is possible to do an analysis which can generally predict the
> heat load from the engine and the radiator's capability to manage that
> load and which could be used to generallly predict how the car
> radiator will perform. Different cases could be analyzed. Cases, like
> steady cruise at several speeds, hard accelerations, various engine
> tunes and displacements. Various ambient conditions could also be
> applied. Anybody wanna try?
>
>
> mayf, out in pahrump
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