Why those old Renaults have the radiator behind the engine.

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05/18/2019 at 20:15 • Filed to: None

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Because the flywheel can then be the fan. Of course nobody was going to notice this answer on the FP.

Here’s a view from the back, under a Renault truck:

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Weirdly, flywheel fans were sort of common for a period of time around 1910. Although most cars kept the radiator up front, and the engine was “sealed” with an under-tray and an air-tight hood to keep air flowing through the engine compartment, and out the back, through the fan.

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Weird huh? Renault did the smart thing and put the radiator near the fan (instead of what everybody else eventually did, which was put the fan near the radiator).


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Kinja'd!!! gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Berang
05/18/2019 at 22:03

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crosley cars did a similar thing, doubling the fan as a flywheel, though they had the radiator in the front


Kinja'd!!! Berang > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
05/19/2019 at 14:03

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I’m not really sure that counts a flywheel, I mean it may technically, but not in the sense that it’s what’s also used as the clutch surface.


Kinja'd!!! gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Berang
05/19/2019 at 14:05

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yeah Only in the steam engine sense.

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