HyperFlow -Design Guidelines and principles
for Motocross Race Bike Cooling Systems and Radiators
In most vehicles, small increases in engine power can usually be accommodated
by the original cooling system, since there is usually some safety factor designed
in and because the vehicle will not always be driven under the worst conditions
or highest temperatures. MX cooling systems in current generation high power
density engines have no head room, and run on the ragged edge of effective cooling.
Standard factory MX cooling systems are a compromise between cost, mass, size,
strength and ability to reject sufficient heat under most circumstances. A combination
of high ambient temperatures, a good rider that is using a high percentage of
the available power, and a tight track will push most standard systems to the
limit.
There are actually many popular misconceptions regarding the heat transfer performance
of an engine cooling radiator, these misunderstandings may reduce
cooling performance rather than improve it.