Rear mounted Radiators, Who's seen/done this ??? Options

[MecGen]

Hi People
I just tryed to search this topic, no luck?.
Has somebody done this?, I would suspect that
there might be a fatal flaw in the design idea. I am
talking about putting it in the rear bumper, sounds like a good choice except for the targa top thing.... boy I
need pics or links please....I've got ideas.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif)
Thanx 1000 times
Cheers
Joe

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[dmenche914]

If you are talking for a water coooled car, I have given it some thought, I'd like to get the radiator in the engine bay if possible, to avoid cutting up the front trunk.

I have thought about running two small radiators on either side of the engine, mounted up near the screened engine lid (use the full screen version, rather than the stock half screen) I would have fans on the radiators blowing out of the eninge bay. Only problems in this mental exercise was:

1. Battery would need to be moved out of the way.

2. The cooling air from under the car would pass the headers ont he way to the radiators, so I'd have preheated cooling air.

Space is tight, and getting a volumous supply of cool air to the radiators seemed un-feasable to me, so the radiator is in the front trunk.

The space probelms are bad enough with a V6, a V8 engine would make matters worse. Now a subaru, or rotary mazda engine might allow more space for engine bay radiators, but still how to get the cool air to them? (short of body side scoops or other outward modifications)


Rear bumper mount for a radiator would not have good air flow I think, plus you still have heated exhaust gas running near it.


Any more thoughts on this???