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Old 08-04-2008, 06:46 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Max777 View Post
when you say "Radiator, what do you mean? you mean oil cooler?
Nope.
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I thought that with the cooling system, you have an "air separator tank", and with the oil system you have a catch can so that you dont spill oil onto the track when racing?
well, yes and no. On street driven cars you have a coolant recovery tank, which is also known as a recirculating catch can. The ones I was looking at on summit were going for 70+ and were just made from aluminum. Not exactly super classy ones either.

Air seperator tanks just seperate air from the coolant flow. They do not (on average) allow for the fluids volumetric expansion and resulting recirculation back into the cooling system.
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