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Originally posted by Don Shillady
Thanks all, that does give me some ideas since I am getting better at making brackets from angle iron. They are a bit clunky but underneath that's OK. C9 the spreader bar cooler is amazing. I'll bet you could even weld/heliarc a few vertical fins on the bar that would look neat. I assume the tube is aluminum? Let me look around for somebody to heliarc some Al. Trailing edge blades would look neat, but give away the function. It looks like I could still use a front bumper along with the cooler if I use a sturdy mounting bolt. I can see how to sketch/design it but it will depend if I can find somebody at the nearby airport to fabricate it. I guess steel would work but not as well as aluminum. Otherwise it is back to making some brackets to mount a small plate cooler like a radiator across the air flow underneath. lts10, you guys are amazing, of course there are a lot of bolts under there to piggy back on. I should have thought of that. I recall a neat picture of the underside of C9's '32 but he has so much neat stuff packed in under there I did not see how he had a cooler and of course it was in the spreader bar all along! Good to hear from Dave and reassuring that I guessed right about potential damage uinderneath. I guess what several of you are calling "in-line" is the type of cooler that is a tube surrounded by aluminum fins but that type has to be put in a protected place.
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder