Why are Rodney Red Custom Fit Performance aluminum radiators better than copper/brass?
Number one reason, the tubes! The great secret behind Rodney Red Custom Fit Performance aluminum radiators is the flat thin tubes. You see while copper actually transfers heat a little better than aluminum, it has another quality that is a big problem. It is a brittle material. When copper is extruded into flat thin tubes, it cannot hold up to the pressures generated by your cooling system! Flat thin aluminum tubes have several advantages over round or oval copper tubes: • Flat thin tubes forces all of your coolant to come into contact with the walls of the tubes. This is vital because that is how heat is transferred or dissipated. The walls of the tubes pulls heat out of the coolant and then the walls and the fins passes the heat into the cooler air you are PULLING through the radiator. (You should pull air through a radiator whenever possible because it is much more efficient than pushing) Round or oval copper/brass tubes actually allows much of the coolant to pass through without co
