Race Car Radiator Duct Design

Just ask nasa utah s george smith who had been trying different radiators and adding duct work to get as much air as possible to the radiator in his car to keep it cool.

Race car radiator duct design.

Radiator duct bump n run street stock 27 1 4 x 18 1 2 in core radiators plastic black chevy monte carlo 1988 each. To force 100 of the air entering the front inlet fascia to flow through the intercooler through the radiator and up out through the hood. With much larger. Efficient cooling allows for less radiator air intake opening.

Five star bump n run air duct fits 1988 chevrolet monte carlo ss w howe 27 1 4 x 18 1 2 radiator 0 reviews. My goal was this. Still the car would run at 230 to 235. As well as factoring in the ambient temperature and the data collected from the car the race engineers will have to trade temperature for performance over the weekend by tuning the bodywork to increase decrease the cooling outlet area.

These flexible radiator ducts are can be a radiator savior. This provides your car with increased front downforce. Getting airflow into the radiator duct is a simpler task than getting it out. My idea for a ducted radiator set up was taken from seeing this done on the ford gt and many gt race cars such as team rahal letterman s gt2 bmw s from the alms series.

In most club level motorsport people building their own cars don t duct the air all the way to the cores of the radiators and some don t even seal the gaps around the radiator.