Re: Vital bodily fluids...antifreeze to your CROSSFIRE
ok, well here goes:
746 is 1 true h/p but thats at 100% efficiency, 1000 is a input typically to go to 1 h/p output with conversion efficiencies.
330 is pretty much the same as 349 unless you are counting survivors of a plane crash. Engineering uses ROM for most evaluations.
The output of the motor is about 330 or 349 HP but thats only 20 to 25% of the heat energy of the fuel consumed, the balance on 1.2 megawatts is lost into the environment without providing meaningful work. The radiator has a real task to reject this much heat and the coolent is critical to this effort, thus it needs to be clean, and at a good consentration to avoid corrosion.
Distilled water can not prevent corrosion as well as antifreeze and the water is used to provide cooling of the motor by transfering the heat to the radiator.
Point (s) were that you can gain benefit by having a higher consentration of antifreeze up to 70% typically (100% freezes at about 0 degrees F).
Reusing the antifreeze is ok but always strain it and when adding water always use only distilled water to avoid the minerals in tap water.
You should consider getting an antifreeze gauge to check the consentration to know what you really have.
Enjoy, Woody
ROM is rough order of magnitude sort of like a wag or wild *** guess.
Last edited by waldig; Jun 8, 2008 at 04:06 AM.