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Originally Posted by nanyangview
So what is a heater core?
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Where to start...?
It's a mini-radiator used in cars/trucks to dump coolant heat into the air coming into the passenger cabin.
If you've turned on the heat in your car, you've used a heater core
They come in a bunch of different sizes and shapes - and, in what seems to be an attempt folks new to watercooling, their listed sizes are the finned area only - there are tanks on the top/bottom that add about an inch total.
They're more inconvenient to mount than a for-PC-radiator, although, if you pick a 6x6 (or thereabouts) heater core and a coolingworks shroud, it becomes very easy. The easiest way to get a core of this size is from dtek-custom. They also sell a shroud, but, IMO it does not have a deep enough "plenum" and should be passed by for the coolingworks one.
I think there's a "sticky" in this forum about heater core selection. Worth a read...
Neither a heater core nor a for-PC-radiator will cool very well without forced air. The fins are too close together.