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The only problem is, I don't know anybody in the amateur-builder

community who is doing this, and I don't know whether the cores that you

folks are using come with the necessary information already provided by

the manufacturer. It is, after all, much easier to pick two points off a

plot than to derive them from tests

If anybody out there has manufacturer's pressure drop and/or heat

transfer data for a core or finished radiator that he could scan and

send me, I would be most grateful. It doesn't matter what core - I just

need to test my work so far against real hardware currently on the

market.

Another way to get some of this Data would be that run our own models. If anyone out there on the list has access to Solid works/Cosmo Flow-works it wouldn't take to long to find out some of this data from just modeling it!

Unfortunatly I don't have access to Flow-works right now or I'd gladly do it! A person could take this a step farther and model the whole cooling system and then using flow works check the heat shed capability of the model [you can imput the temp of the water flowing into the rad and the air flowing through the rad the other way as well as the air flow into/over the inlets and exits. It wouldn't be that hard to do if someone had access to the software! [that might be a big `IF']

Jarrett