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Originally Posted by woode
Good points. Stationary air temps are far more important than moving air temps, and screw physics and math that are too hard to understand - way easier to just spray paint something and say it works.  |
Did...did you read what I said? "May be because street cars need cooling when stationary [radiation] and race cars need cooling bc they're really never stopped." So perhaps where the data says black is better when stationary, race cars really don't need the black since they are always moving. So instead of coming off as a d1ck, I suggest you try to actually add some intellect to the conversation.
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Originally Posted by woode
This post was originally in the cosmetic section, but regardless, spreading false information around doesn't benefit anyone. Anodizing is the correct way to make the intercooler black while maintaining maximum functionality. For a street car it really doesn't matter anyways, and it's annoying arguing over the internet.
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Who's the one spreading false information, and who's the one trying to expand the dialog between the two ideas? Where are your numbers that "anodizing is the correct way"? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Also, people build their cars for various reasons. Maybe it's a street car, maybe it's a pure race car, maybe it's something in between. All have different situations that require different modifications. Let's take autocross, for example. There's a lot of stationary time between runs. Hmm wouldn't heatsoak be a problem? Now, if I sacrificed 3deg during my run to prevent it from soaking up 40deg between runs I think I'll paint it black because the run isn't long enough to let the airflow get it back to, well, only 3 deg better. But if I'm doing track days, it makes more sense to have it silver.
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Originally Posted by woode
As for your question about why they are called "radiators", here is one link. Although it is referring to home radiators, the explanation is the same.. you can find a few other sources as well. Long story short: it's not a true "convector" so they called it "radiator" despite 80-90% of it's heat (or heat dispersion) coming from convection. The term stuck. The English language is full of misnomers. |
See? Providing useful information is a lot more helpful to the community. Thanks for that. I kinda figured it was an old term that just stuck. If it looks like a radiator it is a radiator lol.
By the way, this is not "arguing" over the internet. It's called development. You put your ideas out there for them to grow, not be squashed. Do you think our car would even be here if the Subaru engineers had their way with not developing a RWD car bc it was against their philosophy? With teamwork they created the best of both worlds: Boxer and RWD. And with teamwork we can progress to make these cars even better.