Front mounted rad and traffic
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Hi guys,

A concern has been brough up about the rad i am putting in. I wanted to go to a front mounted rad to help cool the engine but in truth the side mount was doing the job while the car was moving.
The problem came when stopped e.g. in traffic, the temp would climb up until you could get moving again and it would come back down..
Now i fitted a electric fan but never got to see if it worked and help cooling while stopped because i blew the engine up...

My intention was to have the front mounted rad with 2 small R1 motor bike fans on it and then the large fan on the out side of the inner wing. idea being the bike fans would suck in then the large fan push the hot air out the side and to get a flow though the engine bay..

Do you think this will keep the car cool at idle in traffic?
I also have a oil cooler which will be on the inner wing so will have air passing though.

have people with front rads had problems?

Thanks

Should work fine, i would create some kind of ducting for the rad however.

well the plan is to blank around the rad so air is forced though it.

to be honest mate, i dont think you will need the fan on the inner wing.

one decent fan on the radiator would/is sufficient. i believe matty's set-up barely gets up to temp....

just food for thought. no point in the extra time, effort, money and weight.

I'm putting a metro rad in the front of my clubby. I'm going to put a 9" kenlowe style fan on it. If it will cool a metro turbo, then it should be fine in a mini.

The fan in our metro van only ever comes on in traffic.

wouldn't a good 2 or 3 core rad and fan do the job?

Alex,

I am using a Metro turbo front rad with 2 motorbike fans sucking into the engine bay. One was not enough to keep the temps down in a traffic jam - so I added another one. Oil cooler is also side mounted without any fan - no problems so far.

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