rblanders@watrose.UUCP (Robyn Landers) (03/30/85)
After reading Mr. Sellen's response to the "why liquid cooled" question,
I now have a chicken-or-the-egg problem.
How about V4 engines? These obviously cannot be air cooled: there's no way
enough air is going to make it to the two cylinders under your seat to keep
them cool. But you really want to have V4 engines: no primary imbalance
(assuming 90 degree vee) so they're super smooth without requiring
heavy counterbalancers, rubber mountings, etc, plus they offer wide smooth
power band as well. ( Plus they could be narrower allowing better cornering
clearance and lower mounting for better centre of gravity all at once.)
So, did liquid cooling allow them to say, great now we can build those
V4 engines, or did V4 engines make them say, well I guess we need liquid
cooling?
In retrospect, I suppose it would be the former, since liquid cooling
has been around much longer than V4s. But then again, was it to allow all
the wonderful things described by Mr. Sellens, or was it because they
had these engines buried behind fairings and stuff where they'd overheat?
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