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Car radiator fans and HP
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Car radiator fans and HP
On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 5:42:28 PM UTC-4, Ashton Crusher wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:15:24 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:03:04 -0700 (PDT), trader_4 wrote: The fact that it's only ocurring recently, suggests that it may be for other reasons and that any gains in reducing wasted HP, probably aren't big. But if you're designing the car from scratch, a little here, a little there, it all adds up. I am not sure about that. My 83 Firebird had an electric fan. Just about everything went electric when they went to front wheel drive. That was over 30 years ago. Just about everything still leaves a lot: BMW, MB, Volkswagen, Audi cars and the huge number of SUVs, vans, pickups, from all manufacturers. They mostly used mechanical fans well into the 2000's. Some of those only went to electric fans less than a decade ago. BMW with the very popular X5 for example, only went electric in 2006, |
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