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Old 05-23-2008, 03:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
Islander

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Default Front mount rad questions

I have a few questions about a front mounted rad set-up. *But first I will give you my reasons for wanting one in the first place. *Where I will be doing most of my riding will be at a fairly slow pace, (woods with next to no trails, pick a line and make one!!) *so I figured that I want the rad pretty far from the engine heat. *I would set up ducting behind it to keep the heat off the driver and vent out the sides. *In the winter, I could configure it to pump heat into the drivers compartment and seal it off some to keep temps up. *
My questions,
#1 will I have to get an auxillery pump to help move the coolant the extra distance?
#2 Will I be over-cooling the motor? *I figured that with the added capacity that I would get away with a slightly smaller rad.
#3 What would be a good system to run the coolant up to the rad and back. *Can I tap into the lower cage bar and run it through there or will that weaken the bar to much? *I would not use the main bars and put heat shields over places where they are close to the driver.

I was thinking of mounting it kind of like a Subaru inter cooler ala WRX only more upright with a scoop over it and a puller fan.
Mounting it up front and using it for heat in the winter would be a huge plus for me, as I live in an area where its cold out for a little over half the year. *(-10 to -30) *The heat would not be close to the same as a car, but enough to keep the frost off the lower extremities!
Is this way off base? *I wish I was computer savy enough to draw this out!!
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