The automotive sector, and especially the field of super cars and racing cars, involves some interesting applications for Tempco TREG HCE thermoregulating units, employed for test benches of radiators. All of the greatest automotive racing car manufacturers use thermoregulating units for the simulation of the proper functioning and for performance testing of water and oil radiators installed in high performing racing cars.

Cooling the endothermic engines in racing cars is indeed a very crucial task in order to ensure maximum safety, while the damages caused by over heating are plain to see. This aspect is in fact even more thorny speaking of very high performance racing cars, for which in addition achieving savings in terms of weight becomes even more important. For example, it is enough to think about what happened during the last 24h in Le Mans, lest June, when the Ferrari 499P n. 50 had to prolong its pit stop in order to complete the substitution of the radiator that got damaged by a stone.

In order to ensure the reliability of cooling radiators performances on endothermic engines in automotive applications, it is then necessary to carry out long testing campaigns in special test benches similar to small wind tunnels, where components are tested upon mechanical and physical stress simulating the severe working conditions that components will be exposed to during the racing.

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