Originally Posted By: code5coupe
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Agreed...but I think it's the only way to get the heat they need to out of the small circulating volume that they quoted.
Small volume? 70 gal/min is more than a gallon a second. That's a HUGE amount of coolant.
go back and reread all that I posted/linked...
* passenger cars move 2 litres per minute per KW of output.
* modern designs are reducing that, and the advanced designs have dropped that to 1 litre.
a 500KW (625hp roughly) engine would therefore be shifting 500L/min with the advanced emergent technology passenger car systems, which rely on nucleate boiling to get the job done.
70 gallons per minute is 265 litres per minute, which is around half of what the advanced/emergent pasenger vehicles are doing.
Thus my comment on the incredibly small circulating volume...
If they were 10% down, I'd be impressed, but HALF means that they are doing something amazing compared to your and my car.
edit...and it's more like 1/4 of what's being circulated in your and my car.