Off subject alittle...but anyone have a guess at how much BTU's a car radiator can remove?
Off subject alittle...but anyone have a guess at how much BTU's a car radiator can remove?
If this new part can't break....what old part will??
think what your heater core can move. a gallon of gas has 114,000 btus so figure how long it would take you to burn a gallon of gas and figure that half the heat of the gas being burned is going to work and then out the tailpipe (just guessing at this by the way) so figure on having the radiator dissipate 50-60000 btus per gallon of gas. It also depends on the type of radiator material its made out of how dense the fins are packed the size of the tubes and even the coolant being used.
just found this showing the thermal conductivity of copper and aluminum used in radiators
Copper has a thermal conductivity of 231 Btu/hr/ft. Aluminum has a thermal conductivity of 136 Btu/hr/ft.
Not all copper/aluminum was created equal... Some have other materials added into the mix which would change those numbers... Given that, I doubt that there would be a dramatic difference for what we use it for... but, none-the-less, it is was it is...
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