Radiator Flow

cougem · 06-09-2004, 01:48 PM

Hi I've got two Chevvy heatercores I got from soulsend, but I have to mount them sideways to fit them in my custom housing. This means effectively the water is going either upwards or downwards, rather than in a U.

The question is, how would you have it? Would the water spread out better and give better cooling if I had the water going upwards, as it'd utilise the whole heatercore to find itself level

OR

Should I have the flow going downwards for some other reason, such as maybe it'd be easier for the pump if when it was pushing upwards it was just pushing through 1/2 ID tygon rather than through a complex mesh of heatercore?

Or doesn't it matter?

Groth · 06-09-2004, 08:38 PM

I doesn't matter, place 'em however is easiest.

06-09-2004, 01:48 PM	#1
cougem Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cambridge Uni Posts: 176	Radiator Flow Hi I've got two Chevvy heatercores I got from soulsend, but I have to mount them sideways to fit them in my custom housing. This means effectively the water is going either upwards or downwards, rather than in a U. The question is, how would you have it? Would the water spread out better and give better cooling if I had the water going upwards, as it'd utilise the whole heatercore to find itself level OR Should I have the flow going downwards for some other reason, such as maybe it'd be easier for the pump if when it was pushing upwards it was just pushing through 1/2 ID tygon rather than through a complex mesh of heatercore? Or doesn't it matter?

06-09-2004, 08:38 PM	#2
Groth Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: MO Posts: 781	I doesn't matter, place 'em however is easiest.

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