There, youve said it, 2 seconds to do a complete circuit. The whole reason why water is so good, is its ability not to increase in heat that quickly, but also the same issue is once its hot it is hard to cool down quickly, so if the water is flowing round a whole circuit in 2 seconds, how long is it passing through the rad, half a second? As per the whole liquid to air phenomenon - water cools air very quickly, hence why we can get the water out of the core quickly, but also even if the flow is slower, it doesnt matter as water has such a high specific heat content, so will take a long time to