NoSoup: consider my silence as a total agreement.
Quickmcj: You got it right. Actually the very 'heater cores' you can buy from D-Tek and various watercooling shops are auto parts or slightly modded auto parts.
Look at threads started by hmale, there's one where he shows his new heater core. It's designed to cool down race car engines up to 600hp. It will be used to cool down a PC, he he he.
Besides, bb2k started this thread to talk about *pressure* issues in rads. Do we want low or high pressure ?
From my (modest) knowledge:
- we want pressure to work for us, not against us.
- there *are* pressure differentials throughout our water lines, and not negligible, even with our tiny pumps.
- the very few serious tests i've seen tend to prove that low pressure in rads (as opposed as high pressure in WB) is a good thing.
- i've yet to talk to a fluid dynamics expert (i know a few, ill see them this WE) about this, because this problem is clearly over my current knowledge (heck i'm a computer scientist, FD courses are a few years back...)
- this problem does *not* involve flow or temperature. We're talking about pressure here.
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