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4x4ord
Jun 02, 2021Explorer III
Grit dog wrote:ShinerBock wrote:
A large displacement turbocharged gas engine would need a HUGE cooling system to keep it cool in a towing application. Especially one that has a closed deck block like the 7.3L. The radiator would probably need to be the size of a medium-duty Peterbilt.
I'm sure 4x will be by shortly to refute it with some home-made bsfc to kilojoules of heat loss chart....LOL
I agree with 12V it’s gotta be a deezul if it’s going to tow. Maybe we gotta shrink the cooling system. 60% of our fuel’s energy is lost to heat either out the exhaust or into the cooling system. What if we could run some sort of super hot highly pressurized coolant through a nozzle that would spin a turbine coupled to a generator that could recapture that energy and feed it to electric motors at the wheels?
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