From: Bruce White ([email protected])
Date: 18 Oct 2002
Time: 19:05:41
Remote Name: 129.96.230.51
Oops, make that fans fins!
Greg here is a quote from one of the core manufacturers (OS I must admit!)
“A radiator core's internal water passages are referred to as rows. A two-row radiator has two horizontal rows of cooling tubes stacked parallel from the top to the bottom of the core (left); a three-row core uses three rows of cooling tubes. (Aluminium-core radiators use the term cell to describe their water passages. The fins, which are thin metal blades fused to the rows or cells, carry heat away from the water passages and dissipate the heat into the airstream flowing through the core. A radiator's overall cooling efficiency is greatly influenced by the number of fins per inch used in its core -- the more fins, the better the core's ability to dissipate heat. Most standard OE radiators use a core with 12 fins per inch; high-efficiency cores use 16 fins per inch; high-performance aftermarket cores use a still higher number of fins per inch. The cooling effect of a high-efficiency radiator is roughly 35 percent better than a standard-efficiency core.”
So tell me the correct Australian terms I should be using here?
This reminds me of the axle vs ½ shaft debate last year that you won!
FYI I checked and I am using a 16 fpi 3 row. What would you recommend for my Meteor – Reliant special?
One confused Australian/Canadian
Bruce