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Prob slow coz off all that elec equipment and seat covers and custom dash - weighs like a falcon but doesn't fly like one.


good point, i wounder what it wieghs,, he would of had to get it weighed for the engineers papers. Mine was 740kg without me in it. :shock:

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you should relocate your frount mount radiator to the boot and replace it with a front mount cooler,

blake :wink:


How do i get air to it in the boot??

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13secmini wrote:
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you should relocate your frount mount radiator to the boot and replace it with a front mount cooler,

blake :wink:


How do i get air to it in the boot??


rust holes in the battery well of course! :lol:
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13secmini wrote:
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you should relocate your frount mount radiator to the boot and replace it with a front mount cooler,

blake :wink:


How do i get air to it in the boot??


Exactly Brad................. mmmm a nice confined warm spot just for my radiator :?

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Whatcha need air in the boot for? what you some sorta hippie or somefing?
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Um... Imps, Renaults etc got by with a rear radiator... they did have some holes at the back though. On the Imp, this was where the air came IN! Very strange... :shock:

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13secmini wrote:
How do i get air to it in the boot??


Two great big fekin thermo fans mounted to the radiator.

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13secmini wrote:
lobby69 wrote:
you should relocate your frount mount radiator to the boot and replace it with a front mount cooler,

blake :wink:


How do i get air to it in the boot??


I've seen it done with vents under the car scooping the air in, and vents in the bootlid to let it out, could also mount it horizontally in the rear subframe with adequate protection from underneath. Dunno what they'd do about keeping dust out though.... lots more would get to it there than for a front mount

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That's probably why on the Imp, the air from the rad is directed forward, downwards and out the bottom.
Things back there sure got dusty in rallies though. :lol:

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the other starlet mini had a large thermo fan sitting ontop of the rad, with vent holes in the parcel shelf,


with that much water in the cooling system, it would stay rather cool anyway!,

radiator in boot would be atleast double than the stocko!

blake :wink:

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side scoops like on most mid engined cars, then vents on the boot so it can exit
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More water is great for cooling... but is it needed that badly??

dont lose sight of the fact that for every litre of water....... its one more Kg of weight, not to mention the weight and inconvenience of the pipeing.

another thing to consider is the inconvenience of it all, and the maintnance factor.


thats my 2cents worth

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i reckon brad's cooler is the right size, the front mount cooler looks like it's been stolen off a blown chrysler centurion..

the interior looks alright, wouldn't mind a few more pics :wink:


i have a mid-mounted car. and my radiators STILL at the front.
can anyone say 12L cooling system for a 1600 :o
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yeah but you'll still need side scoops for air intake and such
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(contemplating doing it to the K!) Very Happy

haha wotevas!
its mine now silly!
i can do whateva i want!
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