My Ford E350 running a bit hotter
I recently had one of my cylinder heads rebuilt and a new exhaust manifold installed, as well as a new radiator and thermostat - just got back from a trip to Colorado and there were several occasions ...
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I agree that it is difficult to figure out. I wish that they would just give a "BTU" rating so you could compare apples to apples. Evidently the math behind calculating actual energy dissipation is somewhat complicated:
http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jmce/papers/RDME-Volume2/RDME-11.pdf
But in the end, what an end user needs to know is how much heat can the radiator throw off at X degrees ambient temperature.
The thickness of the radiator should, I would think, give some indication to how much heat it can throw off, but this is not always the case, as some radiators now have fewer rows but the tubes that make up the rows are much longer.
Steve
http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jmce/papers/RDME-Volume2/RDME-11.pdf
But in the end, what an end user needs to know is how much heat can the radiator throw off at X degrees ambient temperature.
The thickness of the radiator should, I would think, give some indication to how much heat it can throw off, but this is not always the case, as some radiators now have fewer rows but the tubes that make up the rows are much longer.
Steve
