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kazjim
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Just exploring the waters here (sorry, unintentional Pun. . )

WOuld it be a killer of a Job to have the radiator mounted in the boot ?

Have a pair of 1.5" Copper pipes under the car to ferry water to and from, and a swirl-pot in the engine bay to feed the water pump (with a cap to release air bubbles. . )

Would I need a supplementary pump ?
Would a davies Craig electric do the Job ?

Hmmmm thinking, thinking, thinking. . . .

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You would need to cut vents and everything so that you got the airflow through the radiator right :?:

That would involve a fair amount of body mods I imagine

What was this to find room for again?

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Looking for room for an intercooler kazjim?

The easiest way to fit more in the front the way I see it is...






















To get a Clubbie!!

Sorry, couldn't help but be a smartarse... :P

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It might be stupid but you couldn't do the same thing as was done with the mini radiator to the other side and mount the intercooler in there ? I don't know how much room there is around your clutch and how far towards the tyre you could go but maybe worth looking at :?:

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Yea, I was thinking about the ducting on the way home.....
I reckon the best position for the ducts would the the boot floor with the radiator mounted horizontally, and some "out" ducts in the rear beaver panel . . . .

probably use a Honda or Hyundai Radiator....

Hmmmmmmmmm still thinking, yea, I've looked at the RH wheelarch... would be nice, but i reckon the loss of flow out of the RH wheelarch may be an issue....

Anyone with a flip-front got a comment ? - they dont run inner arches, do they ?

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kazjim wrote:
Yea, I was thinking about the ducting on the way home.....
I reckon the best position for the ducts would the the boot floor with the radiator mounted horizontally, and some "out" ducts in the rear beaver panel . . . .

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Good idea I was thinking you meant something like the twiniminis used and vents cut in the boot lid but your idea will interupt the look of the outer panels far less.

I don't think the flip fronts run inner arches and given that there shouldn't be too many problems with airflow I would have thought because otherwise flip fronts would be less popular.

But then again I could be wrong... would it be possible to fit a better radiator to compensate?

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What if you sat the radiator in the Guard would that be enought room :?

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I'm actually leaning towards the RH guard at the moment... but cutting a heap away....

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Just cut the hole in RH guard, dude... :P
You can always weld some sheet back in if it don't work! 8)

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It might get a bit wet in the boot when it rains.

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Why dont you put the radiator where the spare wheel goes and run a scoop for it under the car

like the subaru scoop on the bonnet but reverse under the car

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Chris wrote:
It might get a bit wet in the boot when it rains.

Yer So :shock:

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Just cut the hole in RH guard, dude... :P
You can always weld some sheet back in if it don't work! 8)

Sound advice. A little aluminium sheet metal fitted underneath to prevent too much air going under the car would also improve air cooling though the radiator and/or intercooler.

Have got a little Nissan ally/plastic radiator for my beast (space is really at a premium), and had figured that I'd just fit another one on the RH side if cooling became a problem. The CraigDavies pumps are expensive for the flow, and that's a whole heap of extra water mass if you want to run it all the way to the back. You would be better off going air/water intercooling (Subaru Liberty B4, etc) than doing this.

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Why don't you just cut into your bonnet and turn it all into a big flat area of fins. You could use that as a giant radiator.
Great airflow (if you angle the fins right) and it's such a large area, it would lose the heat faster than a crook in a Ferrari.

Or mount the engine in the boot, and give the engine bay all to the raditor. You could even have 6 or so mounted in there.

Or you could build it into a rocket and blast to the moon...

See where I'm going with this...?

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