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Old 01-30-2013, 02:59 PM   #143 (permalink)
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One wonders what you could achieve, packaging-wise, by splitting up radiator duty. I understand the Bugatti Veyron, with its enormous heat load from that multiply-turbocharged engine, has 10 separate radiators - three of them are for the engine.

I think the reason there is that in order to keep the aero reasonable and not have a gigantic Volvo barn door nose, they have to be made smaller to tuck into less-frontal positions, hopefully ones that are something close to aerodynamically neutral in their effect on the vehicle's total drag.

So, is that an option? Could you break up the rig's radiator duties between several smaller units, pull cooling air in around the front wheels and dump it through the gap in front of the trailer? No testing, I just have a hunch that would be the most advantageous place to do it. Of course this would require a gigantic amount of high-volume ducting.
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