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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2019
- Air-cooled engines are legendary, lightweight, simple and elegant -- from the Porsche 911 to the cheerful VW Beetle.but that didn't stop Porsche and VW from dumping them. The air-cooled engine was a victim of two major automotive trends.
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I wish I had Cooley as my college professor. He explains things so well.
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Wow, this should be source material for automotive schools.
Just perfect! Thanks for dropping this knowledge, sir.
I have a '97 VW sedan with 500,000KM and still going strong.
Starts as fast as a newer engine.
And a lovely 4 speed manual transmission with a heavy AF clutch.
In Mexico the last VW sedan was a 2004 model
Brian Cooley
You are special
Keep these videos coming
I enjoy them
Hey cooley! You explained everything about cars simply and straightforwardly! You’re a walking google in the automotive industry. Thank you!!
This was exacally what I was looking for. Thank you!
Thank you. That was a precision delivery.
Excellent video, thank you!
very interesting -- well explained -- thank you !
This is the first video I've seen from this channel. Subbed! I'm an auto tech student with an interest in air cooled engines and this was a great place to start.
This is my first time watching Cooley and man, he’s better than my professor back in college. Perfect explanation on how water and air cooled engines work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent show !!you’re a very entertaining host. That was fascinating to learn the intricacies of both systems
Love your explanations of the cooling system! Retired Ford technician.
Perfect illustration. Well done.
I was watching The Cars That Built The World on the History channel and wanted to get a more detailed explanation on air cooled engines and your video explained it perfectly. Thank you sir
Cooley, you do a great job bro!
awesome video
An air cooled range extender (or Atkinson hybrid) is enough to dream about. _Relatively_ cheaper engine parts for a less demanding job on the road.
I love this guy
COOLEY FOR PRESIDENT. SUCH A NICE GUY
I said it before I’ll say it again, Cooley is the man
My first car was a '64 VW Beetle. As bad as those heater boxes were for interior heat - directing ANY heat onto the windshield to defrost was a total nightmare!
Educational
Cool Cooley
Great video! Seems like there are some parallels between the disappearance of air cooled engines and rotary engines in passenger cars, hard to get high compression for emission reduction in rotary engines due to issues with tip sealing and limits on the amount of power/torque that can be generated without exotic workarounds, if I recall a video I saw on Engineering Explained a while ago
Cooley needs his own channel. The only reason I watch Roadshow.
Not only in cars. The air-cooled diesel engines from Deutz have legendary status.
Wonderful sounding, fuel efficient engines. Almost unkillable.
Will you ever review cars again? Love your opinion on cars!!!
I have not used the heater in my Audi A5 for a long time (almost a year).
I turned the heater on and it made the engine not reaching the normal working temperature (90 deg C) and actually fluctuating up and down from 70-85 degrees for 26 minutes! This happened 2 times!
After that, it got normal and now with and without the heater, the water temp is normal again. Do you think this was due to thermostat or water pump malfunctioning or the water in heater radiator being blocked or something because of not being used for a long time?
Great video! The only question I have is, is the air cooled engine going to be pressurized? Since a water cooled engine is a sealed system and pressure builds in that, but for an air cooled engine since it’s driven by a belt from the engine, is it just going to be ambient air pressure?
Air Cooley is the coolest cat on UA-cam.
Air cooled Engine sound unique
Now I understand how water cool works
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can i have the 5.4? Pretty sure i can make it fit in my 01 Passat
A dude put an LS in a Quatro Audi.. I can make it work
I would love to find a nice Corvair
cooling makes more heat than the sun. He cools off by making these videos.
Unrelated but now I understand how water-cooled computers work. haha
Miss the car reviews! Will you start doing vehicles again?
Eyy that’s my question 😈
Miss my '57 bug
why don't the fan on air-cooled engine come with automatic on/off control to regulate the temperature more accurately?
Some do, except not electric they have a thermal clutch that engages when it reaches a certain temperature. You also have to take into consideration that 95% of air cooled engines are carbureted which means no fancy computers to control things as an electric fan.
@@huntertomlin3909 nah... Electric fan doesn't need computer control, just simple thermostat will do.
Hey Mr. Cooley, How can I purchase your elegant bumper sticker?
We will announce when we have more 🚗
I really want to see the electric battery cooling method. Its probably simpler as one can imagine right?
FastLikeUNO guess what, it’s water!
Harley Davidson and Indian both still make air/oil cooler motorcycles. A benefit to these old tech, push rod engines is the lack of parts. They are quite reliable these days thanks, in part, to the lack of parts.
What coolant is better, the orange colored type or the green colored and does it make a difference?
Clifton Parchment different cars use different types of coolant to work with certain tubes and prevents damage
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Your owner's manual will tell you which is the right one for your car. It depends on the metal used in your engine. Scotty Kilmer has an excellent video on the development history of antifreeze that answers your question fully.
Depend on design... The colored for safety... Best is water....
Electric cars do have a water cooling system for the battery and drive unit
Where has this video been the last 13 years
Air cooling works on computers because it doesn't matter what temperature it's at, as long as it's below maximum.
(No moving parts to expand and contract)
I miss my old air cooled VW.
back then hitler still around...
Why not go buy one?
@@chrisreynolds6391 I am too old for that now but I do think owning one of these gave the opportunity of learning the basic automotive principles. Especially when the budget was small.
Not only vw and porsche made air cooled engines, honda also made them in 1960's till the 80's
I want to see the EV version of this
Oooofff that complicated right now. BEV cooling systems are constantly evolving.
They can cool a PC and had to water cool a PC and you want to aircool a EV???
@@campkira WTF Nissan Leaf IS AirCooled. One of the most produced BEV in history. AirCooled Lithium Ion BEVs is quite common. But really crappy and low powered.
Always love to see Cooley, but he didn't quite answer one of the main questions posed: what are the advantages of air cooled engines. The main one is cost. They require less metal, are less complicated, and quite a bit lighter. It's why you still see them in lawn mowers. A small mower engine can be as cheap as a hundred bucks. There is almost no advantage to the buyer of a used car. Air cooled engines will not make as much power, as consistently, or last anywhere near as long as, a liquid cooled engine. They are also very noisy, comparatively. There is this one very minor advantage, and it's one of the main reasons they were used so much in small airplanes until the last decade: the cooling system cannot fail as long as the vehicle is moving.
I wonder how much power you'd free up on an old air cooled engine if you binned the mechanically driven fan and installed an electric instead.
at least 100 hp and with racing stickers additional 50 hp
@@brandonblack2095 It's been proven that moving from a mechanical fan to electric CAN free up HP on liquid cooled engines. My question is legitimate.
You could probably expect about 3 to 5 percent more power since the engine wouldn’t be driving the fan for less drag. But then again you would need some sort of temperature control to have a fan motor blow the right amount of air when it’s needed because you can’t have the engine run too cold as I believe gaps in the piston rings would allow so much blow-by gas when it’s running.
Electric fans need elecricity to fuction. Electricity has to come from somewhere. In both Porsche and VW air cooled engine the exact same pully that spins the fan also doubles to spin the alternator/generator. I highly doubt you can gain even 1% more horsepower by switching to electric fans on air cooled engines. Even that Engine Masters show illustrated even different TYPES of mechanical fans have different effects on horsepower.
@@darrenmorris869 Yes they do, but as another person pointed out, it would have to be speed controlled; much like a pc fan. Running at lower speeds would require less electricity, putting less load on the alternator than a typical automotive fan that only runs at it's max speed all the time.
I have a question. Do you think electric only cars will last twice as long as gas cars??? No exhaust, no rubbing oil parts, no carb, reduced brake wear. Tesla says 1,000,000 miles is a possibility. 🤔 Your thoughts? A good subject for a video?
I think the battery technology is the limiting factor. If they can innovate a battery with a hundred thousand charge cycles then perhaps yes- but that battery is scaring lots of ppl from the used electric market, and rightfully so. Depreciation is difficult to predict.
My Porsche is best Porsche because air cooled!
What about oil cool engines?
Why would anyone downvote this video?? Or Brian Cooley??? SHAME SHAME SHAME
But still how impressive that Japanese racer makes their cars 700HP and can drive at top speed for 12 minutes with an air-cooled engine.
Citroen Axel ??? Or let's said Oltcit from Roumania...
the funny thing is you dont need that thermostat at all expecialy if you nur a engine with implosion and cold disel effects and a open egr valve you wuld lover your fuel consuption drasticaly and re use bether not burned gases those water coled cars are junk it destroy your engine ower time due to heat and part wear a air coled engine is a way to go not to waste money on parts by water cooled engines! plus if you use a lover viscosity oil lubrecant you will never over heat ore use oil aditive with gasoline so you have dobel protection for over heating and you increase your engines perfomace and life spand dont listen what new age mechanics talk they talk to earn more money from you Im a profesional car restorator and my hobby are oldtimer cars those old engines can by easely modified to any thing they simply refuse to fail
So if you think about it every engine is air cooled lol 🤔
But you still see air cooled engines in airplanes.
I can explain easier. Watch the movie terminator 2
Air cooled is t1
Liquid cooled is t2.
Simple lol
please go back to reviewing cars, you're channel will grow much quicker with those. You're so explicit in your analysis (a little similar to Saabkyle04)
A lot like a computer, air cooled is basic and water cooled is better for temps.
Open your own channel. People will watch you religiously.