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Neil K wrote:

Ed,

        Yup...  it's all under there.

        I was quite pleased with the first ground run (with cowls
off).  Oil temp never got over ~180.

Neil

What's the status on your project.  Did you ever
get all the components
stuff under your cowl.  Don't know how you do it
as my cowl does not have
much room to spare and I know it is lot roomer.

Ed

Looks pretty good Neil. Would work a bit better with more of a
bell shape in the right diffuser. The left one looks better.
I also think it will work better with the rads in parallel
instead of series. The second rad will run cooler than the first
so the rate of heat transfer in that rad will be reduced.
For an example; Say the first rad drops the temp 15 degrees F
and the ambient temp is 100 degrees F and water temp is 200 F. That 
means the second rad is 15% less efficient roughly.

Paul Lamar
 
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