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WATER COOLING i NO BAD IDEA IDC THNX

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not sure about how to go about doing this but i have a feeling that some parts from a water cooling system could help. they are small, cheap, and have good mounting systems and they cool systems that get around 250 f if un checked and keep them at around 130 f.
 
on the really really old boats, there wasn't such a thing as a water cooled engine. so they sold these little hollow bands that went around airplane engines, and water would flow through the bands to cool the motor down, and the band was mounted on the fins of the crank case. if you did some looking, I'm sure you could find one of those water cooling bands. or you could use small metal piping wraped around the cooling head.
pics coming soon!
pics have come!!! this is a enya .60 i got from my prather offshore boat kit i still havnt built.
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looks like a piece of copper pipe that has been rolled out a little with a couple of fittings on the ends. Pretty nice solution if there isn't a marine engine head available.
 
as a radiator you should bend copper tubbing into like a inter cooler is on a car and mount in front of the body and get a tyler perry pump i thank thats what it is called and water cool it like that. just a thought tho

also i know that computers cpu fans are small you could use one to cool it off at the radiator and 9volts is plenty to run it
 
Water cooling systems are a useless item on an RC car.
The engines are designed to be air cooled, and tuned with the proper mix of air and fuel to run at maximum efficiency in a specific temperature range. If it's too cool, it won't run at its peak, and if you try to bring the temps up you'll run too lean, causing premature engine wear from lack of oil.
The extra weight of the system doesn't help either.
 
rolex said it good. but if you are that determined look at PC cooling systems. they have water colling methods for extreme gamers.
 
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