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radiator question I was thinking about using a car radiator in my watercooling setup. would i need to use a stronger pump in order to get the water through it?
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![]() The dead-volume problem only occurs in enclosed pin waterblocks, and multi-pass/parallel radiators. IIRC a car radiator is usually single pass, in which case maskedgeek's reasoning holds for getting the flow through the entire system. BUT by having such a huge radiator volume, you're doing yourself no favours. The flow-rate will always be x gal/min, same everywhere in the system, but the flow velocity (water in metres/sec or feet/sec) will be minimal. Rate of heat flux is directly proportional to flow velocity: you really want a radiator to have skinny little tubes, as a result. For a typical watercooling pump, you'll get nice turbulent flow (ie fastest heat transfer) in your waterblock, and either streamline or (worse) creeping flow in the radiator, giving pathetic heat flux out of the system. You might as well just use a reservoir then (y'all know what I think of reservoirs). Either way, let us know how you get on
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A heater core works great...
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the thing is i already have the rediator (would only get like 10 if i brought it back for core charge)
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It might work out Ok, id probably go ahead and buy a pump and waterblock and test it out. If you get poor flowrate or temperatures then you will have to find a heatercore to use instead. Another thing to watch for is galvanic corrosion. WHere ions of copper will attack alluminium, if the rad is aluminium I wouldnt use it. THose bits of oxide can clog your waterblock (or in an extreme case cause a leak) Use glycol or waterwetter to reduce this efect.
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