<VV> color blind...

[Ron]

It's quite safe to say that over 99% of all cooling in a Corvair engine is 
by convection.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Secular" <rusecular at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: <VV> color blind...


>
>  The idea behind painting a radiator (or push rod tubes) white, if in fact 
> they are,
>  is that white paint would reflect incident light making them more 
> efficient.
>
>  However (I mean howeverrrrrr), in the "real world" you could paint them 
> zebra stripes,
>  (mine are camouflaged), orange or green, because the primary mechanism
>  of heat exchange of an automotive radiator (or in this case push rod 
> tubes),
>  and the atmosphere is __convection__ not radiation.
>
>
>  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/convection
>
>  It just does not get hot enough to radiate a lot of heat by radiation. 
> Fans are atop
>  all corvairs to increase air flow to increase __convection__
>
>  Your air cooled clunker will quickly overheat if the fan belt breaks --  
> by the way has
>  anyone painted the corvair cylinder heads polka dot green?
>  I'm looking for some data here to see whether that
>  "keeps your Corvair Alive" :))
>  Regards,
>
>
>  Tony I.
>
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