Rising temperature

[ronk]

I would prefer an oil/air radiator.

 

[techathy]

<pedant mode>No you want a oil/air heat exchanger similar to the water/air heat exchanger incorrectly referred to as a radiator</pedant mode>

 

[ronk]

Yes I agree and that's what I meant !
An old fashioned oil cooler radiator on the front skirt.

Why not call it a radiator ? It does also radiate heat in the exchange process?

Is it another new name us codgers haven't kept up to date with?

 

[DinosaurEyes]

I've never driven my zed above 70mph, so I wouldn't know.

 

[flybobbie]

I would have thought a heat exchanger would be better defined as a device to exchange heat in a closed system.
Much like the silver square box mounted on the engine near the oil filter.
A radiator is more open to the elements, using non re-cycled medium, air.

 

[ronk]

So that's what that gizmo is!

 

[techathy]

A car radiator gets rid of very little thermal energy by radiation, most of it is by heat conduction. Thus technically it’s not a radiator it’s a heat exchanger.