Race Car Radiator Duct Design

My goal was this.

Race car radiator duct design.

Keeping a c5 corvette cool on a racetrack in 100 degree heat isn t easy. Each radiator duct includes a molded plastic radiator flange and nose air inlet extension for ease of installation. With much larger. 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.

Radiator duct bump n run street stock 27 1 4 x 18 1 2 in core radiators plastic black chevy monte carlo 1988 each. Still the car would run at 230 to 235. These flexible radiator ducts are can be a radiator savior. Getting airflow into the radiator duct is a simpler task than getting it out.

Efficient cooling allows for less radiator air intake opening. 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. This provides your car with increased front downforce. 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.

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.