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Can those small "half" radiators be enough to cool a TII?

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Old 08-02-07, 05:52 PM
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Nobody is bashing your idea, its just cooling a 600HP rotary and cooling a 600 HP piston motor are TWO different things entirely.

The rotary has no wasted stroke, and generates WAY more heat.
Old 08-02-07, 06:11 PM
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Mazda went with a smaller cooling system in the FD to save space/weight/etc and look what happened

oh and I've never had a problem with the stock N/A cooling system. Even taching 5000+ for 25 minutes at a time it never goes over 210.
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Im sure mazda thought about this and must have found that using a larger radiator, that wouldn't fit verticle and only at an angle would be the only optimal way for cooling the engine.
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Yea, but is that EVO a drag only car? If it is it only has to cool for a few seconds of running, then it gets shut down and can cool off. Maybe it'd be ok just for the strip, but not on the street.




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