Koolance's Response to Hardware Labs "The Copper Radiator Myth"

[C'DaleRider]

Eh he's a Koolance fanboy, no use :P

Is it just me or did I look into the radiators of cars at a car dealer and saw BRASS and COPPER???

As far as the brass/copper rads in cars, I really doubt you saw that in a new car. They almost exclusively use aluminum radiators.....weight considerations. A brass/copper rad would be just too darned heavy these days in the gas mileage consciousness of car design. You may still see auto trans aux. coolers with brass/copper designs, but even these are mostly aluminum. But I'm sure they'd go right back to copper and brass if the weight penalty wasn't so great.....when they used to use them, the radiators were a lot smaller in width....probably because they got better heat exchange out of them. And is it any wonder that the heater cores in cars are still copper and brass.....that's one place that the better and faster heat exchange does matter.....the passenger comfort zone.

Heck, to save weight, more than one auto maker has moved to plastic intake manifolds.....lighter than aluminum and easier to mold.



As for the Koolance fanboi, even around the big city of Atlanta, there are still hicks from the sticks who refuse to believe truth, even when beaten over the head with it. Shames me to even think he's from the same state I occupy.

And his sig:

"Koolance the undissputed "king of cool"..." Pity he cannot spell undisputed correctly......c'est la vie. Guess that's what you get when you have a good ole southern boy at the keyboard..........