How to Improve LXi Engine Cooling Performance

[davidbrady]

Al,

My envelop scratching says that ideally you'll need 3/4ths of a gallon of water per mile but more realistically probably closer to double that amount or 1.5 gallons per mile. This assumes you want to power up the hills at 500hp but your cooling system w/o water only permits 300hp. My doubling attempts to account for the water that's splashed off or is blown off before it hits the core and for a non-uniform wetting of the core, some areas over watered some areas under watered. With 100 gallons of water you can cover 66 miles of grades. Then there's the fouling and scaling of both the radiator and the CAC core and lack of water for anything else. It's a solution, but it can consume quite a bit of water.