[DeTomaso] Under car water pipes

[Barry Seib]

You could certainly do it if you only wanted to idle around town under 30
mph, but it would be much harder to get rid of enough of the heat produced
by the horsepower used to go 100mph+ with just fans. The flow through the
front rad at high speeds would be a challenge to achieve in the rear.
Just my opinion
Barry

 -----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lewis [mailto:lotus0005 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:15 PM
To: oldwheel at mts.net; detomaso at realbig.com; artstephens at verizon.net
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Under car water pipes


  Man, I feel really dumb bringing this up.  Disclaimer:  I am NOT a
mechanic.

  So, my question is, could the radiator be put in the back, with
super-duper fans?

  Here's how my thinking goes:

  (1).  diesel trucks, farm tractors, etc., can sit all day long and not get
hot.

  (2).  We had an amusement park type train, that ran on a Ford 4-cylinder
gas tractor engine, with fans on the radiator, that worked great.  Top speed
about 10 MPH.

  (3).  VW's have no radiator.  Porsches???

  Combine the water radiator, and the oil-cooling radiator.

  Thanks, Bill Lewis






  > From: oldwheel at mts.net
  > To: detomaso at realbig.com; artstephens at verizon.net
  > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:48:24 -0500
  > Subject: [DeTomaso] Under car water pipes
  >
  > Art
  > If you're bored, why don't you consider eliminating the swirl tank
  > altogether and connecting the expansion tank to the cold (return) side
of
  > the cooling system instead of the hot (pressure side). John Taphorn has
done
  > this. I don't think the oil cooler or the little tubes on the rear of
the
  > heads are neccesary for my plan, but the general idea makes a lot of
sense
  > to me:
  >
  > http://www.spacecitypanteras.com/Technical/Pantera_Cooling-JTaphorn.pdf
  >
  >
  > Barry
  >
  >
  > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
  > ----
  >
  > snip>>> I also got to thinking that a way to
  > make our cooling systems more efficient would be to increase the
capacity of
  > the pressurized swirl tank. I'm thinking that you could probably double
the
  > size of the tank and make the system work better?
  >
  > Art
  >
  >
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