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also, I know of ways to use copper tubing to pipe the heat up to the front radiators without having to relocate it. This type of relocation of heat is common in desktop computers.
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Perhaps you know all this already, but are you aware that this "copper tubing" actually has a poreous wick or very fine grooves on the inner walls which (by surface tension) wicks the working fluid back to the hot end of the heat pipe, and at the hot end the liquid working fluid is vaporized by the heat, with the vapor drifting thru the hollow center of the tube to the cold end? And that the system has to be evacuated of all non-condensible gasses? That the interior of the system must be very clean to avoid wick problems? Also, historically, these wicks become ineffective after years of use and the heat pipe stops working. That is ok if you are using the heatpipe on a sattelite, with limited lifespan anyway. Assuming the wear-out of the wick problem has NOT been fixed, there are going to be some unhappy computer users some years from now.
It is unclear to me how you plan to condense the working fluid in the cars original condenser and then still get it picked up by a wick to bring it back to the hot end. But if you do, my hat off to you.