Hey everybody, I'm a new guy. While I do not have a bike, I plan on owning one in the next year or two. In the meantime though, I am on a club at school that designs and builds a racing go-kart every year. For a few years now we have used a 2002 CBR F4i engine and my task this year is to design the cooling system. I was wondering if anybody knows how much coolant the engine and radiator each contain? In the manual it says the total volume is 2.7 liters (plus .31 L for overflow), but what are the radiator and engine volumes' separately? Thanks in advance. Here's a link to our website for those of you that want to check out what we do.

http://www.engin.brown.edu/organizations/fsae/

 

I doubt anyone is going to have an answer for that. Doubt its listed in themanual I have which is a few miles away with my bike. You are probably going to have to test their individual capacities yourself. Given your school and apparent field of study I know I dont need to bother telling you how to do that. Post some vids of the finished product when you are done.

 

Why do you need to know specific capacities?

 

Thanks, just wondering if anyone might know to save me fromhaving to actually do this...i need to know becausefrom the looks of ourcurrent radiator, its a lot bigger thanone foundon a bike...im trying to figure out how much i might be able to downsize the radiator to cut back on weight. but thats the thing, it onle looks like it. i dont actually know the volume.we custom order our radiator to fitwith our car and i have toplace the ordersoon.

also, i just do this for fun.i suck at math, but i have a pretty good foundation in physics.im planning on a bio major. at home i work on cars and just recently bikes so this just takes some of the stress out of college.