just wondering, has anyone ever attempted to run a rad at the BACK of a notch when doing a watercooled conversion? surely if you fitted a radiator to the old air outlet from the aircooling (from the guards, where there is the big hole in the inner back panel), powered it wih a couple of thermo fans and shrouded it so that the air escaped out the bottom/back (so that air coming from under the car into the engine bay didnt interfere with flow) you could get a prety effective stealth cooling system?
has anyone tred anything like this before?

Sounds good in theory but I wonder if you would get enough airflow to keep a radiator cool.
The front of a notch lends itself more to having a radiator mounted in the front as it looks more like a normal sedan.
But theres always the problem of getting the water from the front to the back.
Give it a go someone has always gotta be the first.

I was thinking maybe the air would just run straight over at the rear.
Might have to have a scoop on the rear engine lid to catch the air.

Cheers
Dave

Why not try this idea?
Gleened this from The Samba.
Mount the element downhill, suspended under the bootlid?
Reduces the flexi-hoses and general plumbing....

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You could always run one each side...slightly smaller more compact with one thermo fan behind each. I am sure 996 porsches run one each side at the front.

Matt

notchbacktastic, i was thinking more like this renault, with air coming from that bit of plastic that comes from the inner rear panel. would love to try it out myself but dad wouldnt let me hack his notch

liek your idea boof, i think one of the other guys did that with a bay kombi and worked real well for him.
i recon it hasto be stealth in a t3, dont like the idea of hacking the front of one unnecessarily.

You mean more like a Type 34?
k.

Maybe something like this is the go, one day i'll try this method and tell you how it went.

there ya go...

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horray for me, got the damn piccie to work...

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A mate of mine has a notch. afew guys have warned him to be careful of it overheating coz the stock fins don't get enough air flow. I reckon the fins in the guards ala square/fasty is the go. Or, put two rads next to the gearbox and duct from under the car. Baja wes has done this to good effect.

Just put it in the front....

What Matt said.

there is a guy who did that with a rotary conversion in a type 3, didnt work that great, and he ended up putting it in the front. i dont know why people dont like putting the radiator up front. its not that hard, and you can make it look stealthy pretty easily.

Theres a bloke up her in Bris with a leyland V8 in his bay, and he has 2 rads mounted in the sides, had a lot of trouble keeping it cool initially! Theres also heaps more room in the bay! I think its achievable with some hacking and chopping but you dont have much width to play with!?
I dont like the idea of clutering up the rear boot with a rad, and the heat retention would be a worry!!

hmm, would be soo neat if it could be pulled off (absolutely stock looking except the engine bay)